Schneider originally hailed from
Atlanta, Georgia, before moving to
Boca Raton, Florida at age 13. She graduated in 1993 from
Spanish River Community High School. She is a graduate of
New York University's
Tisch School of the Arts. Schneider appeared regularly as a panelist on
Best Week Ever and various other
VH1 commentary programs. She has played a
Paris Hilton-like debutante on Fox's
My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss, she starred in Trio's
The Pop Culture Round-Up: White Noise, Comedy Central's
Contest Searchlight with
Denis Leary, was a cast member of
VH1's prank show
Sledgehammer, guest-starred on
NBC's
Happy Family and Comedy Central's
Crossballs. Schneider has appeared on ''
Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' and voiced various characters on
MTV's
Celebrity Deathmatch and the
PBS Kids GO! series
WordGirl. She also co-starred as Krista in the
Spike TV improvised comedy series
Players in 2010. Schneider is a graduate of
New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She has been a performer and teacher at the
Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (UCB) in
New York City and
Los Angeles, where she was a member of one of UCB's original
improvisational comedy troupes,
Respecto Montalban. In 2002, Schneider's two-woman sketch show
Eye Candy, which she wrote and starred in with her creative partner
Dannah Phirman, was selected for HBO's
U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in
Aspen, Colorado. She has since collaborated with Phirman on other sketch shows such as ''Let's Get Awkward
and Dead Heiresses
at the Los Angeles UCB. Dead Heiresses'' was also developed as a pilot for
Comedy Central in 2007. Schneider and Phirman wrote the screenplay for
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 and are currently working on scripts for the upcoming movies
Catfight for
New Line Cinema and
Boys Are Stupid, Throw Rocks at Them for
Universal. Schneider and Phirman created and starred in the
Hulu reality TV parody series
The Hotwives and wrote on the
NBC sitcoms
Marry Me and
Telenovela. ==Personal life==