Sydney Rose Schmieder

Sydney Rose Schmieder, known by most as Sydney Rose, was born in Elmhurst and raised in South Queens, New York. From before she could remember, Sydney was taken on numerous auditions by her mother, Suzanne, and booked a few spots in commercial and print modeling. At the age of 4, Sydney had stopped auditioning and working as a model, and she was put into classes at a local dance studio. From then on, she never got off of the stage. While dancing was an extra curricular to her schooling, Sydney took her performance skills and brought them to her school through student created works, participating in chorus & music electives, and getting cast as lead roles in the annual shows. Her love and passion for creating and performing only continued to grow. She graduated from the Scholars' Academy High School in 2018, and continued her education at New York University Tisch School of the Arts in the Department of Drama, receiving her Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Theatre in May of 2022. While attending NYU, she received acting training in Musical Theatre through the New Studio on Broadway and in Screen Acting through Stonestreet Studios. Sydney's most recent acting credits include "Troops in Contact" (dir. Arash Shabany), "goner_girl.mp4" (dir. David Kyle Anderson), "Inner Monologues" (dir. Alex Rollins Berg), and "Ubu Rock" (dir. Francine Torres), where she was the Dance Captain and Assistant Choreographer to Francesca Harper. Sydney Rose Schmieder also has a valuable reputation for her work behind the camera in addition to her work in front of the camera. As a training actress in the Screen Acting Residency Program at Stonestreet Studios, she was offered the opportunity to complete a Summer Internship post- graduation as a Teacher Assistant for the program she once took herself. The internship taught her key production skills including working the camera and handling different types of equipment, and it opened the door for her to begin Assistant Directing. That Summer, Sydney was the First Assistant Director on several projects including "Unseen" (Alex Rollins Berg), "Isabella and Claudio" (Rosalyn Williams), "Colossal Income Savings" (Malcolm Mills), and "Flowers and Groceries" (Mariano Jose Flores), which made its premiere at NYCinefest last month. As mentioned before, Sydney's most recent project as an Assistant Director was for the upcoming short, "Hunt for Serenity" (Arash Shabany), which is currently in post production (June 2023). Sydney is going to continue this work, for she knows to be a successful actress is to understand both sides of the lens.