Manisha is an actress, teacher and translator. As an actress, she has been performing regionally and internationally for over 20 years. Before forming Act French New York in 2009, she trained at Cours Florent in Paris with Guillaume Gallienne, Michele Harfaut and Lesley Chatterley. She studied for several years with Chatterley before becoming her assistant at Florent's "Acting in English" class. Her acting in French alumni include NY actors Robert Stanton (Mary Stuart, Confessions of a Shopaholic), Cat Walleck (War Horse at Lincoln Center) and Randy Harrison (Queer as Folk, Berkshire Theater Festival). She has taught dozens of aspiring French, Brazilian, Portuguese and American actors as well as UN officials and Lycée Français teachers. As an actress, she is currently collaborating with French playwright/director Joël Pommerat, actor Robert Stanton and New York Theater Workshop on a new piece scheduled for 2016 in New York City. Snoyer developed the Act French language curriculum based on her experience training as an actor in Paris and seeing how it helped her to learn to communicate fluently in French - as well as observing, as a private tutor to NYC high school students, how the traditional methods of teaching language presented obstacles to students with different learning styles. Manisha graduated Summa Cum Laude from Brandeis University with a double degree in French Literature and American Studies. Manisha developed the unique foreign language curriculum at Act French New York and currently teaches all classes.