Projects
Clerc's Inferno
A play in two acts by Carol Schneider
In workshop at THE NATIONAL Theatre in London - July 2023
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In 1817, a French Deaf teacher, Laurent Clerc, and a hearing reverend, Thomas Gallaudet, triumph over prejudice and ignorance to create a revolutionary school for the Deaf, the first of its kind in America. The entire enterprise is brought to the brink of collapse when Clerc finds himself inexorably drawn into a romance deemed immoral by everyone including, perhaps, himself. Based on a true story. A poignant and funny chronicle of the genesis of American Sign Language and an unlikely friendship, told in a dazzling combination of ASL & English.
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In preproduction with Deaf Hearing Ensemble and Dreamatorium Theatre in London.
Funded by Arts Council England, the Wiener Family Philanthropy, and Rechnitz Family Fund.
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CLERC’S INFERNO: From Page to Sign, Rod Jorge’s documentary short about captivating rehearsal process has been busy making the festival circuits! See the documentary on the official website for Clerc's Inferno.
My Father Came From Italy
Screenplay by Carol Schneider
Based on the memoir by Maria Coletta McLean
As her beloved father, Emilio, seemingly slips into dementia, Anna makes a troubling discovery about the cause. The drastic measures she takes to rescue him, lead her from their home in Toronto to Supino, Italy, the village of Emilio’s youth, where Anna buys a dilapidated house, sight unseen. Though she leaves nothing to chance, nothing goes as planned for the Supinese live by their own rules. In the end, father and daughter retrace footsteps that yield, from the Saint of Special Favors, a miraculous recovery.
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Starring Tony Shaloub as Emilio
Directed by Isabella Salvetti
Creative Producer: Joe Cacaci
Producer: Steve Wakefield
Production House: Take5 Productions (Vikings, the Handmaid's Tale)
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To be shot in Toronto, Canada and Supino, Italy in 2023
Nevertheless We Persisted:
ME TOO
2019 Voice Arts Winner for Biography, 2020 Earphones Award, 2020 Audie Nominated
“I’ll Take the Usual” essay written & read by Carol Schneider
​A woman talks about the normality of harassment on the job…
The Favoured Son
Book One of the Knight Errant Series by Carol Schneider.
The Knight Errant Series chronicles Eostre, one of the audacious women who impersonated knights during the Crusades, went rogue, and defended non-combatants from slaughter.
The Favoured son: After William the Conqueror lays waste to rebellious Northumbria, Eostre and her once-noble family flee into hiding. Taking her murdered brother Elias's identity was her servant's idea--- Bad things happen to unprotected girls, worse than death.
Turns out Eostre is happier slaughtering wolves and routing thieves than she ever was as her family's silk-clad peace-cow.
Love-starved but spirited Eostre becomes the attentive son her favoured twin never was. Her beloved dad, a former general, assuages his grief over Elias's death by playing along with Eostre's ruse and training her in swordsmanship. But when her skills dazzle the Norman Earl who recruits the pair for a revolt, Da shunts Eostre aside, claiming she's too weak-minded to be a real warrior and threatening to reveal her secret.
Now she must defeat both a tyrant king ... and the person she's adored her whole life.
