Hi! Bonjour! Привет!

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

I'm currently based in Ottawa, ON.

As of September 2021, I'll be based in Toronto, ON.

Thanks for visiting my website!

Feel free to contact me for:

• Freelance dramaturgy, translation (French-English), transcription, copyediting, or document design. If it involves words, I can probably do it.
• Existential chats on the nature of Canadian theatre criticism and Taylor Swift.
• Resources pertaining to Sarah Kane, Canadian theatre criticism, and/or verbatim theatre.
• Cat photos.

Bio

Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Aisling is a playwright, critic, dramaturge, and academic.

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 will be featured as a short case study in the upcoming Routledge anthology, Undergraduate Research in Theatre.

Aisling is also the 2020-2021 Arts & Culture Editor for The Fulcrum at the University of Ottawa and an Associate Editor for Intermission Magazine in Toronto.

She'll be graduating Magna Cum Laude with her Honours BA in Theatre from the University of Ottawa this June, and (big news!) re-locating to Toronto to pursue her MA in Theatre, Drama, and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto this September.

She's also a Taurus (if that wasn't abundantly clear).

'This is what we needed': 13 U of O Swifties reflect on a difficult year

April 2021 - The Fulcrum

Review: a selection of undercurrents festival (Remixed and Ethel)
March 2021 - The Fulcrum

A letter to my year-ago self
March 2021 - The Fulcrum

Two letters to Sarah Kane on the anniversary of her death
February 2021 - Intermission Magazine

Grand Acts of (Digital) Theatre: A conversation with Jillian Keiley on reviving Canadian performance
January 2021 - The Fulcrum

TikTok and eating disorders: why I'm taking a break from my favourite time-waster
December 2020 - The Fulcrum

The unexpected role an Ottawa call centre played in the 2016 US election
October 2020 - The Fulcrum

Forthcoming: "Last in a Long Line of Literary Kleptomaniacs": On Feast
Date TBA - Undergraduate Research in Theatre: A Guide for Students (Routledge, ed. Michelle Hayford)

Post-COVID Theatre as Imagined by an Emerging North American Dramaturg in April 2020

June 2020 - Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas

Feast - #ArtApart Reading 

May 3, 2020 - Ottawa, ON

Featuring Megan 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

The Assembly - NAC: In Search of a Middle Ground

March 2, 2020 - Capital Critics Circle

The Case for Hadestown

January 27, 2020 - The Theatre Times