Eileen was thrilled to portray the Baker's Wife in a concert reading of INTO THE WOODS at the Baruch Performing Arts Center to benefit the National Asian-American Theater Company in October of 2010.

Eileen is proud to have played an ersatz Imelda Marcos in The Encounter, a play depicting the harrowing and comical political chaos that rocked the Philippines in the 1980s, as part of Diverse City Theater's 2010 Pearl Project festival.

Eileen performed the short solo piece A True Asian Hottie, written by Jo Shui, for Pan Asian Rep's NEWWORKS 2010 series.

"A True Asian Hottie is one hot lady...and a whole lot more. Ya don't know someone until ya really know someone."

Eileen performed in the world premiere comedy Rosa Loses Her Face in a co-production with the Electric Theatre Co. in Scranton, PA and at Queens Theatre in the Park in NYC. She played Amy, the still-single and free-spirited adult daughter of Rosa, her successful first-generation-American Chinese mother. Their attempts at reconnecting and understanding each other are met with frustrating and comical results.

Eileen and her Jaradoa Theater mates were proud to perform, in collaboration with the casts of Avenue Q and In the Heights, the title number from Shafrika, The White Girl at the Palace Theater at the Gypsy of the Year annual fundraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS on December 7th and 8th. Over $4 million dollars was raised this year!

Eileen played Esther, the Chinese nail-salon owner with a secret, in Emily Chadick Weiss' short musical play The Lookout in the latest brunch series of the Ensemble Studio Theatre Youngblood Playwrights Group in October 2009, which for the first time was a collaboration with the wonderful outreach program The 52nd Street Project.

Eileen performed in Jaradoa's third production, Anika Larsen's sassy autobiographical musical, Shafrika, The White Girl, at the Vineyard Theater in 2009. The play is the true story of Anika's upbringing as one of ten children, six adopted and of different races. Eileen played both Anika's sister Kari, and difficult grandmother Patricia.

Playbill.com press release excerpt, October 2008:

The La Jolla Playhouse, by special arrangement with East of Doheny, will offer by-invitation-only workshop presentations of Please Don't Eat the Daisies Oct. 20 and 21 in Manhattan.

Based upon the Jean Kerr book and the MGM film, the new musical features book and lyrics by Robert Lee and music by Leon Ko. John Bowab directs.

The readings at the Hilton Theatre Rehearsal Studios will feature the talents of Brigid Brady, Trevor Braun, Bernard Dotson, Melissa Dye, Gregg Edelman, Steven Eng, Eric Michael Gillett, Beth Fowler, Rosena M. Hill, Dalton Harrod, Eddie Korbich, Chelsea Krombach, Stacey Logan, Benjamin Magnuson, Joy Lynn Matthews, Neil McCaffery, Geoff Packard, Eileen Rivera, Matthew Schechter, Lea Thompson and Andre Ward.

Eileen helped kick off the 2008-2009 season at New York Theatre Workshop by performing in Michael Weller's new play BEAST, with acclaimed director Jo Bonney at the helm. The stellar cast comprised of Raul Aranas, Jeremy Bobb, Dan Butler, Lisa Joyce, Logan Marshall-Green, Eileen Rivera, and Corey Stoll.

A blood-red, comic road adventure that follows two Iraqi War veterans, best friends - badly mutilated but more patriotic than ever, as they try to find their way back home from a military hospital in Germany. Instead, their marauding journey across America ends up in Crawford, Texas with their Commander In Chief, where they propose a surefire solution to all his problems.

Eileen is thrilled to have starred in Russell Leigh Sharman's first knockout play, The Small of Her Back, in 2008.

The two-person psychological thriller starring Ms. Rivera and Jeremy O'Grady introduced audiences to two acutely depressed individuals who are indirectly linked in cyberspace. When one of them physically confronts the other face to face, tension and suspense ensues, keeping audiences guessing until the very end. The production was the second successful production by Jaradoa Theater.

In 2007, Jaradoa Theater premiered its debut mainstage production, Serenade, written by company member Nils Olaf Dolven and Rachel Sheinkin, Tony winner for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, with Broadway veterans Joshua Henry and Anika Larsen in the lead roles. Eileen received glowing reviews for her comic role as Hannah's Aunt in this heartwarming musical.

Eileen performed in the off-Broadway smash comedy, Sides: The Fear is Real, at The Culture Project with Mr. Miyagi's Theatre Company. SIDES is about six hopeful actors' quests for employment as the audience follows them through their audition nightmares. The show is based on true-life experiences of the cast/creators and their friends, and all the sides (audition script pages) are real.

Eileen performed in the world premiere of the new musical The Long Season by playwright Chay Yew and composer Fabian Obispo at Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska. The play tells the story of Depression-era Filipinos emigrating to Alaska for work and a better life.

National Public Radio's Lynn Neary flew to Juneau to report on Perseverance and The Long Season, and the result aired on "All Things Considered." Listen to the story and rehearsal snippets below, on the NPR site.

Dogeaters is published by Theatre Communications Group and Eileen is thrilled to live immortal in its pages. The Public Theatre produced Jessica Hagedorn's play based on her best-selling novel about the Philippines during the Marcos era, and Eileen originated the very different roles of Trini and Pucha in this acclaimed New York production. Michael Greif won an OBIE for his direction.