Jana Schneider

Jana Schneider

Janet Ann Schneider (born October 24, 1951, in McFarland, Wisconsin) is an American actress and photojournalist.

Jana had a successful career on Broadway, and was nominated for a 1986 Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Musical for the role Helena Landless in "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" and won a 1986 Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

In the late 1980s, she decided to become a photojournalist. Jana worked for several photo agencies including SIPA press. Her work was published in Time Magazine, Newsweek, Stern (magazine) and many other newspapers and magazines.

She covered news stories in Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, Angola, the Soviet pullout from Afghanistan. She was in Baghdad during the Gulf war, and photographed the fall of the Berlin wall, and the break-up of the Soviet Union.

In 1992, as she was covering the Siege of Sarajevo, Jana was badly wounded when a tank shell fired from Serb positions exploded next to her. Her friend, a journalist from Slovenia Ivo Standeker, was killed. Jana spent many weeks in the hospital, first with the UN and later in Belgrade where the doctors managed to save her leg from being amputated.

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title=Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
years=1985-1986
for "The Mystery of Edwin Drood"
before=Leilani Jones
for "Grind"
after=Jane Summerhays
for "Me and My Girl"

External links

* [http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=78167 Jana Schneider theater credits]
* [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/040517/17photog.htm Article in US News & World Report]


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