Aisling Murphy (she/her)
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I'm Aisling (pronounced Ash-ling). Thanks for visiting my website. Feel free to contact me if you have questions, if you want to talk about a production you've seen (or a play you've written, or a TV show you've been binging – for me, that's Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale), or if you've found a magical source of funding for graduate theatre studies programs.
Bio
Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Aisling is a playwright, critic, dramaturge, and academic currently based in Ottawa, Ontario.
In 2020, Aisling's first play, Feast, was developed with the Tarragon Theatre Young Playwrights Unit in Toronto; following the closures spurred by COVID-19, Feast was granted an #ArtApart grant by the National Theatre School of Canada. Feast is a verbatim play which explores the work and critical legacy of British playwright Sarah Kane; it was first developed as a ten-minute excerpt at the University of Ottawa , and quickly bloomed into a full-length dramatic text by the end of 2019. Feast will be featured as a short case study in the upcoming Routledge anthology, Undergraduate Research in Theatre.
As a critic, Aisling is a regular contributor to the Ottawa-based Capital Critics Circle and, more globally, The Theatre Times. She is also the Arts & Culture Editor for The Fulcrum at the University of Ottawa, and, as of October 2020, an Associate Editor for Intermission Magazine in Toronto.
Aisling is an emerging academic, currently pursuing her BA Honours with Specialization in Theatre from the University of Ottawa. As a Research Assistant to Dr. Yana Meerzon at uOttawa, she has helped with the publication of several monographs and edited collections.
Aisling is available for freelance dramaturgy, copyediting, transcription, and creative consulting.
She's also a Taurus (if that wasn't abundantly clear).
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