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AISLING MURPHY

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    AISLING MURPHY

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      AISLING MURPHY

      • ABOUT

         

        Hi! Bonjour! Привет!

         

        I'm Aisling ("Ash-ling") Murphy. My pronouns are she/her.

         

        I'm based in Toronto, ON. I work as a staff reporter at the Toronto Star and as senior editor at Intermission Magazine. I offer freelance services in translation (French-English), copyediting/proofreading/document design, and dramaturgy.

         

        For Toronto Star inquiries, please email me at aislingmurphy@thestar.ca.

         

        For Intermission Magazine inquiries, use aisling@intermissionmagazine.ca.

         

        For anything else, use aisling.aly.murphy@gmail.com.

         

        Bio

         

        Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Aisling is a journalist, theatre critic, and occasional playwright. She primarily writes about Toronto's arts and culture scene and Taylor Swift.

         

        Aisling is a staff reporter at the Toronto Star, the senior editor at Intermission Magazine, and president of the Canadian Theatre Critics Association. Her writing was featured a bunch of places prior to joining the Toronto Star team, including The Fulcrum and Maclean's.

         

        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 was then developed at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Djanet Sears. Feast is featured as a short case study in the Routledge anthology Undergraduate Research in Theatre.

         

        Aisling graduated Magna Cum Laude with her Honours BA in Theatre from the University of Ottawa in June 2021. She has an MA in Theatre, Drama, and Performance Studies from the University of Toronto.

         

        She's a Taurus (if that wasn't abundantly clear) and she has a tabby cat named Fig and a grey kitten named June. She lives in East York.

      • SELECT WORK

        Links to selected stories, from reviews to investigations to interviews to personal essays.

        Review: Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ sparkles with self-reflection and synth
        October 2022 — Toronto Star

        Review: ‘The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale’ at Soulpepper is as good as its title and just as charming
        October 2022 — Toronto Star

        Interview: ‘This is what theatre is supposed to be:’ How Paula Vogel’s ‘Indecent’ remembers a century of dramatic censorship
        October 2022 — Toronto Star

         

        Interview: ‘We don’t wear heels in the Arctic’: How Inuit model Willow Allen uses TikTok to showcase life in the north
        October 2022 — Toronto Star

        Interview: YouTube megastar Daniel Howell reflects on a life online
        October 2022 — Toronto Star

        Review: The Shark Is Broken at Mirvish
        October 2022 — Intermission Magazine

        Recap: Taylor Swift reflects on her journey to filmmaking at TIFF 2022
        September 2022 — Toronto Star

        Travel: ‘Come From Away’ comes home to Newfoundland
        September 2022 — Toronto Star

        Investigation: Why Luminato Festival abruptly cancelled an exhibit by an Indigenous collective
        August 2022 — Toronto Star

        Interview: Sarah Gadon appears in Coal Mine's eighth season
        August 2022 — Toronto Star

        Interview: Eric Peterson’s a TV star, but theatre acting is his favourite
        July 2022 — Toronto Star

        Review: ‘A Perfect Bowl of Pho’ at the Toronto Fringe is a delectable hit
        July 2022 — Toronto Star

        Interview: How Cynthia Dale spends a typical Sunday
        June 2022 — Toronto Star

        Interview: How Maisie Peters wrote Canada's new pop anthem
        May 2022 — Toronto Star

        Interview: Blind actress Shayla Brown makes her Toronto stage debut
        April 2022 — Toronto Star

        Memoir: Sarah Kane's Been Dead for 23 Years. I Still Don't Know How to Thank Her.
        February 2022 — Intermission Magazine

        Memoir: Dear Evan Hansen at TIFF
        September 2021 — Intermission Magazine

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