BIOGRAPHY

Barbara Minkus, originally from Chicago, began show business in Julius Monk's New York review Bits and Pieces. She then went on to receive rave reviews touring as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl throughout the United States. She was the original Lucy in the recording and Off-Broadway production of You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, and continued her Broadway success in The Education of Hyman Kaplan, directed by the great George Abbott.

On television, she was a regular for six seasons of Love American Style and played Gittle the Witch in ABC's Curiosity Shop. She made many appearances on The Tonight Show and a record twenty times on The Merv Griffin Show. Barbara has numerous film and voice over credits, including playing the voice of Ms Pacman in the ABC cartoon series Pac Man.

After taking time out to raise her family, Barbara returned to the theater at the Santa Monica Playhouse in Funny You Don't Look Like a Grandmother, and went on to star there as Molly Picon in Picon Pie, a role she helped research. She then reprised Molly Picon Off-Broadway. Last year, Barbara Minkus starred in Los Angeles and Florida as Jennie Grossinger in Stephen Cole's delightful musical Saturday Night at Grossinger's. She will return to play Jennie Grossinger again Off-Broadway in the summer of '09.

Barbara starred last December in NYC in "Piano Bar". She also presented "From This Moment On – Minkus Sings Porter" at The American Jewish University in Los Angeles and returned this past January to present "The Songs Of Irving Berlin". Last summer Barbara played Miss Lynch in Grease at the Muni Theatre in St. Louis and returned this past summer to play Yente in "Fiddler On The Roof" again at The Muni and Starlight Theatre in Kansas City.

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