Broadway Backwards

What: One Night Only Concert!
When: Monday, March 13th 2017 at 8 pm
Where: Al Hirschfeld Theatre, 302 West 45th Street, NYC

Eileen is thrilled to lend her voice to this highly-anticipated annual event featuring an array of Broadway & TV stars performing Broadway tunes with a twist: men sing songs originally intended for women and vice versa.

Not only will Eileen sing for a cause that helps men, women and children in crisis, she will perform on a Broadway stage for the very first time. This 1-night-only show is already sold out & expected to raise record-setting donations for Broadway Cares and NYC’s LGBT Community Center. Expect hilarity, exuberance & amazing dancing!

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Carmen la Cubana

What: World Premiere Musical
Where: Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris FRANCE
When: April 6th – 30th 2016

This fresh musical theatre version of Bizet’s CARMEN moves the story to 1958 revolution-era Cuba with an international cast and creative team. Eileen originated the streetwise, quick-witted Paquita in a cast made up of Americans and Cubans, lead by Tony-nominated British director Chris Renshaw, with new orchestrations and arrangements by Tony winner Alex Lacamoire…

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The Family on ABC

Episode: Season 1, Episode 5 “I Win”
When: March 27th 2016
Where: Sunday on ABC @ 9/8c

Eileen grills Grant Show (of Melrose Place fame!) in the new missing-child-reappears drama The Family. The eerie thriller stars Joan Allen and Eileen appears in the show’s fifth episode, questioning “Governor Charlie Lang” at a news conference.

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HER EXCELLENCY Industry Reading

What: New Play Reading
When: Thursday, November 6th, 2015 @ 3pm
Where: Snapple Theater Center 1627 Broadway (@ 50th Street)

Eileen Faxas stars as Nora Astorga against Sharon Talbot’s Jeane Kirkpatrick in a new political dramedy set at the U.N. during Reagan’s Iran-Contra Scandal, capturing a real life clash of the titans between the famously erudite U.S. Ambassador and a bloodied-revolutionary-turned-Nicaraguan-superstar-ambassador. Read on if you’d like to attend the private reading….!

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VEEP on HBO

Episode: “B/Ill”
When: May 31st 2015
Where: Sundays on HBO @ 10:30/9:30c

Eileen makes a return trip to the Baltimore set of VEEP to play a newscaster, this time reporting on the beleaguered state of President Selina Meyer’s “Mommy Meyer” bill. Eileen wants to joyfully convey that VEEP is one happy and well-nourished set! And Eileen was one happy and well-nourished actor.

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The Blacklist on NBC

Episode: “Masha Rostova”
When: May 14th 2015
Where: Thursday on NBC @ 9/8c

It’s the Grand Finalé of Season 2, and IT. IS. SHOCKING.
That is all we can say. That, and that Season 3 is going to be a whole new ball game. But that is all we can say. And also that Eileen was invited back to continue “reporting” on the events that set the shocking events in motion. Do NOT miss the very beginning of the drama. Because as of this writing, hers will be the first face you see and the first voice you hear in the episode.

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VEEP on HBO

Episode: “Convention”
When: May 10th 2015
Where: Sundays on HBO @ 10:30/9:30c

Eileen will play a newscaster in the critically acclaimed HBO show VEEP. Season 4 premiered April 12th! So get ready to watch Eileen report on the ridiculous goings-on behind-the-scenes at the presidential convention, as Selina Meyer jockeys to “improve” her ticket.

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The Blacklist on NBC

Episode: “Karakurt”
When: May 7th 2015
Where: Thursday on NBC @ 9/8c

It’s the next-to-last episode of Season 2 of The Blacklist, so you know the Mystery Crime Drama will crank up the drama factor. And when things go Boom, I’ll be there reporting on what the CIA doesn’t want you to know…

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Hereafter – Sept 2014 thru January 2015

Off Broadway’s Snapple Theater Center
1627 Broadway (@ 50th Street)

On a cold winter’s night, three women meet at a psychic’s doorstep. Eileen is Christina, a woman haunted by her past. She is desperate to contact “the other side”, unaware “the other side” is by right at her side. An intense and surprisingly funny meditation on life, death and limbo that won raves from critics and audiences alike.

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Person of Interest on CBS

Episode: PROPHETS
When: October 21st, 2014
Where: CBS Tuesdays, 10/9c or ONLINE (to CBS All-Access Subscribers)

We could only dribble out bits of information at a time – per a friendly-but-firm message from the CBS public relations department – but we can now safely tell you that our redhead is co-starring in an episode of PERSON OF INTEREST opposite Guest Star Jason Ritter, whom Eileen is happy to report is simply lovely!

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