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 in the Radio Room at the Toronto Star and as Senior Editor at Intermission Magazine.
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Bio
Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Aisling is a playwright, critic, dramaturg, and academic.
Aisling is the Senior Editor at Intermission Magazine and President of the Canadian Theatre Critics Association. Her writing's been featured a bunch of places, including The Fulcrum, Maclean's, and the Toronto Star.
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 currently being further 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 is currently pursuing her MA in Theatre, Drama, and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto.
She's also a Taurus (if that wasn't abundantly clear), and has a tabby cat named Fig.
April 2022 - Toronto Star
Shayla Brown, a visually impaired actress, makes her Toronto stage debut
April 2022 - Toronto Star
Introduction: tick, tick...BOOM! (Canadian digital premiere)
November 2021 - Netflix
How to Return Home: Dear Evan Hansen at TIFF September 2021 - Intermission Magazinee
July 2021 - Undergraduate Research in Theatre: A Guide for Students (Routledge, ed. Michelle Hayford)
April 2021 - Maclean's
April 2021 - The Fulcrum
Two letters to Sarah Kane on the anniversary of her death
February 2021 - Intermission Magazine
May 3, 2020 - Ottawa, ON
Featuring Magan Carty and Norah Paton, in collaboration with Paul Griffin
A Mid-Pandemic Letter to the City of Ottawa from a Young Theatre Critic (cc: GCTC's Daisy)
March 28, 2020 - Capital Critics Circle
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