BARBARA MINKUS - BIOGRAPHY Barbara Minkus 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. Barbara Minkus starred in Los Angeles and Florida as Jennie Grossinger in Stephen Cole's delightful musical Saturday Night at Grossinger's. Barbara presented From This Moment On – Minkus Sings Porter at The American Jewish University in Los Angeles and returned to AJU to present The Songs Of Irving Berlin. She played Miss Lynch in Grease at the Muni Theatre in St. Louis, and came back to The Muni and Starlight Theater in Kansas City, to play Yente in Fiddler on the Roof. Barbara starred in NYC and Los Angeles in Saul Ilson's Off-Broadway Musical Don't Leave It All to Your Children. Last year, Barbara presented her one woman show I’m Not Famous (A Musical Journey With Barbara Minkus) that she wrote with Susan Morgenstern for a five-month run at The Santa Monica Playhouse, and is now preparing to bring the show Off-Broadway with its new title 18 Minutes of Fame (A Musical Journey with Barbara Minkus) Visit Barbara’s website at: www.barbaraminkus.com BARBARA MINKUS SAG/AFTRA/AGVA/EQUITY Wendee Cole Management Commercials - BBR Bret Adams Ltd. Agency Wendee Cole Samantha Daniels Margi Roundtree (818) 914-5264 (323) 852-9559 (212) 765-5630 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] FILM Hold On Singer Contestant Dir: Tarek Tohme Love At First Bite Featured Dir: Stan Dragoti Lady Sings The Blues Fanny Brice Dir: Siney Furie What's So Bad About Felling Good? Secretary Dir: George Seaton Witches Brew Wife Dir: Richard Shore Killings At Outpost Zeta Space Technician Dir: Robert Enenegger Malibu Bikini Shop Wife Dir: David Wechter Linda Lovelace For President Anarchist Dir: Caludio Guzman Happy Hooker Goes To Washington Tourist Dir: William A. Levy TELEVISION Getting On Mrs. Spindler (Guest Star) HBO Tosh 0. Comedy Show Judge (Guest Star) Comedy Central Love American Style Comedy Vignettes (Series Regular) ABC Curiosity Shop Gittle the Witch (Series Regular Lead) ABC Pacman Mrs. Pacman (Series Regular VO Lead) CBS Alice Foreigner (Co-Star) CBS Brenda Star Hank the Reporter (Lead) Pilot Mother Jugs & Speed Rhoda Cab Co. Owner (Lead) Pilot How To Get A Divorce Patient (Co-Star) CBS The Tonight Show Johnny Carson Divorcee (Lead) Pilot The Mery Griffin Show Featured NBC NBC BROADWAY/OFF-BROADWAY/LA THEATRE I'm Not Famous One-Woman Show Santa Monica Playhouse, LA Don't Leave It All To Your Children Grandma (Lead) LA, NY Picon Pie Molly Picon (Lead) LA, Palm Springs, NY, Fla. Education of Hyman Kaplan Rose Mitnick (Lead) Alvin Theatre, NY You're A Good Man Charlie Brown Lucy (original Recording) Theatre 80 St. Marks, NY Rondelay Sweet Young Thing (Lead) Hudson West, NY Julius Monk's Bits & Pieces Review Ensemble Plaza 9, NY NATIONAL TOURS/REGIONAL Fiddler On The Roof Yente St. Louis Muni: Kansas City Starlight Grease Miss Lynch St. Louis Muni Funny Girl Fanny Brice Fla; National Tour, Papermill Playhouse Saturday Night at Grossingers Jennie Grossinger LA, Fla. Funny You Don't Look Like A Grandmother Grandmother Santa Monica Playhouse, LA 70 Girls 70 Grandma/Sadie Musical Theatre Guild, LA EDUCATION/ SPECIAL SKILLS Theatre West, Neighborhood Playhouse (Sandy Meisner) (Commercial List Available Upon Request) Singer- 3 Octave Range Yiddish, NY Accents PLEASE VISIT: www.barbaraminkus.com.