Bio

Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Aisling is an award-winning journalist, critic, and occasional playwright. She is the incoming theatre reporter for The Globe and Mail, with a start date of January 23, 2025.

Since 2021, Aisling has been the senior editor of Intermission Magazine, and as a freelancer she's had bylines at publications across North America, including the New York Times, The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Postmedia, and CBC Arts. She was a 2024 fellow at the National Critics Institute at the O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT.

Aisling graduated Magna Cum Laude with her Honours BA in Theatre from the University of Ottawa in June 2021. She also has an MA in Theatre, Drama, and Performance Studies from the University of Toronto. She's guest lectured at universities across Canada, and in 2024 she taught a semester-long theatre criticism course at the University of Ottawa.

Aisling's first play, look away from me (formerly Feast), was developed with the Tarragon Theatre Young Playwrights Unit in Toronto. The play received an #ArtApart grant from the National Theatre School of Canada in 2020. In 2022, look away from me was further developed at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Djanet Sears. The play is featured as a short case study in the Routledge anthology Undergraduate Research in Theatre and was presented as part of Tarragon Theatre's 2024 Play Reading Week.

Aisling was the 2023 runner-up for two Nathan Cohen Awards, including Outstanding Review and Outstanding Critical Essay. Her breaking news work was recognized in 2024 by RTDNA for her contributions to stories about the 2023 Toronto mayoral election and the ongoing Kenneth Law trial in Mississauga.

She's a Taurus (if that wasn't abundantly clear) and she has two cats named Fig and June. She lives in East York with her husband.