Former 'South Park' voice actor to perform one-woman show 'Freedom of Speech' at WWU

Eliza Jane Schneider, a former voice actress on the TV show "South Park" and current member of the musical group "Eliza Jane and the Barnyard Gypsies" will make an appearance on the Western Washington University campus on Friday, Jan. 22, to perform a staged reading of her 30-plus-character solo play "Freedom of Speech."

Schneider’s “Freedom of Speech” is a solo story that takes the audience on her journey through the kitchenettes and hearts of America. The show includes Arizona polygamists, Arkansas fiddlers, Pittsburgh street rappers and New Orleans midnight arias. Schneider takes the audience on her own wild ride from Arizona to Alabama to Alaska, stopping off in beauty parlors, swimming holes, bars, street corners, and churches, asking everyone she met, simply, “What’s going on?”

The critically acclaimed performance, which is free and open to the public, takes place at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 22 in the Old Main Theater. The performance will be followed by a question-and-answer session about dialectology and documentary theater.

This event is sponsored by the WWU Office of Undergraduate Education, the WWU English Department and the WWU Linguistics Program.