Schneider spent her formative years on a Chippewa reservation in Bemidji, Minnesota with her two older brothers in a mostly Jewish family.

[1] She participated in a theater program at Northwestern University's National High School Institute and graduated from UCLA in 1994 as a world arts and cultures major.

[5] While in college she continued going to auditions and got the role of Sheila Brentwood in the television series The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys.

[6] For her college senior thesis, Schneider made a cross-country road tour in a former ambulance studying regional dialects.

"[1] From the interviews she created a one-woman show called Freedom of Speech in which she tells the stories of 34 people in their voices.

"[1] In 2008, Schneider wrote a play called "Sounds of Silence: A Documentary Puppet Musical Farce" about the 2004 United States election voting controversies in Ohio.

[6] In 2003, while Marshall continued to provide voices, Schneider left over the show's producers' refusal to extend her a union contract.

[1] In 2012, Schneider joined the cast of Spider Baby the Musical for a San Diego performance, playing the role of Emily Howe.