Bio

Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Aisling is an award-winning journalist, critic, and occasional playwright. She primarily writes about Canadian theatre and pop culture.

Aisling is the senior editor of Intermission Magazine, and as a freelancer she has bylines at publications across North America, including The New York Times, The Globe & Mail, The Toronto Star, Postmedia, and CBC Arts. She's also a sessional lecturer at the University of Ottawa, where she's teaching theatre criticism for the Fall 2024 semester. She was a 2024 fellow at the National Critics Institute at the O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT

In 2020, Aisling's first play, look away from me (formerly Feast), was developed with the Tarragon Theatre Young Playwrights Unit in Toronto; following the closures spurred by COVID-19, look away from me was granted an #ArtApart grant by the National Theatre School of Canada. look away from me was then 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 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.

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.