Manisha Snoyer is the founder and head teacher of Act French New York whose mission is to help students develop spoken and written fluency in French while cultivating an awareness and appreciation of great contemporary Francophone playwrights in the United States. She is an actress, translator and teacher who has taught acting in French and English in Paris and New York City for over five years. Private clients include students from the Columbia School of International Affairs, Spence, Chapin, Trinity, St. Bernard's, St. Anne's, Poly Prep and the American High School in Paris. She has also taught Broadway actors, avant-garde theatre directors and playwrights. Manisha is a regular substitute teacher at the Chapin School where she has given classes in AP French literature and 5th-10th grade French. Manisha graduated Summa C** Laude from Brandeis University with Highest Honors in French Language and Literature and High Honors in American Studies. She won the Anna Aronson memorial award from the Romance and Comparative Literature Department for outstanding achievement on her thesis: "Translating Sallinger for the American theatre." She also holds a D.E.U.G international relations from the Sorbonne: Paris VII. After graduating from Brandeis, Manisha spent three years training at "Florent," an acting school in Paris, France where she was the assistant teacher for Lesley Chatterley's "Acting in English" class. Manisha has translated and produced two contemporary French plays by Bernard-Marie Koltes and Joel Pommerat in New York City and Waltham, Massachusetts.