Milinda Meehan (Claire)
Milinda joined The Girls Next Door in 2001 but has been performing since she was four years old. First as a dancer and then singing when she came home from the 1st grade one day and sang Edelweiss for her mother. She and her two brothers used the fireplace hearth as their fist stage until their Dad built a real stage in the basement. Before high school was over, Milinda had performed as a dancer (ballet, jazz, tap & Pointe), a gymnast, a majorette and a singer but it wasn't until after college that she ventured into musical theater.
After graduating Regis college with a BA in Management & Communications, she started voice lessons with Eddie Watson at the Steinway Building in Boston and auditioned for the Barnstable Comedy Club on Cape Cod, Ma. She got in and was hooked! Since then she has been in over 25 theatrical productions, been a lead singer in 3 bands, has been a costume designer, musical director and director.Of her years of training, many have been spent at the Professional School for the Arts studying voice, musical theater, tap and theater dance. She has been a scholarship recipient there multiple times for voice and music theater. She was also a scholarship recipient for Karen Morrow's Singer's workshop. That is where she worked her songs for her Cabaret act. Milinda continues to perform in theatrical productions throughout Southern California.
