DO40 Founding Member Eileen Casey arrived in NYC from Boston, MA at 18 to pursue her professional dance career. She studied with all the top teachers in New York at the time, including Luigi and Matt Mattox. Her first job was for a TV commercial dancing with Broadway performers. Shortly thereafter, she booked a summer stock job obtaining her Equity card and she was on her way to a career totaling 16 Broadway shows, as well as TV and Film.

Eileen worked with all the major choreographers and directors of the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, such as Bob Fosse, Gower Champion, Jerome Robbins, Tommy Tune and Michael Bennett. She traveled extensively, performing with such notables as Mary Martin, Ethel Merman and Fred Astaire, which gave her invaluable experience.

Some of the highlights of her career were working on Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz as a principal dancer, being in a TV special with Fred Astaire and doing a Woody Alen film as a ghost dancer in Everybody Says I Love You. She loved performing in a commercial for Ajax, choreographed by the famous Gwen Verdon.

Eileen’s Broadway credits include Hello, Dolly, West Side Story, Mame, Promises, Promises, Sugar, Seesaw, Pippin, Dancin’ and My One and Only. She also dance in several pre-Broadway shows and a few that opened and closed quickly, like Marilyn and Mata Hari. She loved performing in the annual Milliken Breakfast shows and working with the top Broadway stars and choreographers there.

Eileen attributes her success to her love and discipline for her profession, along with enthusiasm and a drive to… succeed! She consideres herself fortunate to have worked with all these legends of theater and dance.