David Schneider

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1. First role

   Schneider's first lead role came in 2006 with Uncle Max, a CITV series of 13 shorts that have no dialogue. The shorts focus on slapstick, and Schneider said he wanted to be "a human cartoon".

2. Early training

   While at Oxford, Schneider performed a mostly physical comedy act that stood apart from the 1980s trend toward stand-up, and there he met Armando Iannucci, who recruited him in 1991 for the radio spoof On the Hour.

3. Behind the camera

   David Schneider wrote the screenplay for All the Queen's Men, a 2001 feature film. Stefan Ruzowitzky directed it, and Matt LeBlanc and Eddie Izzard starred.

4. Behind the camera

   In 2017, David Schneider worked with Armando Iannucci on the screenplay for The Death of Stalin, sharing the writing duties on the film.

5. Behind the camera

   Schneider directed a 2007 sitcom pilot called Up Close and Personal, set in a celebrity magazine office and starring Raquel Cassidy, which ITV2 then rejected.

6. A change of course

   Schneider co-founded the social media agency That Lot in 2014 with writer David Levin and David Beresford, and in 2018 they sold it to the PR firm Weber Shandwick.