Bio

Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Aisling is an award-winning journalist. She is the theatre reporter and critic for The Globe and Mail, co-chair of the Toronto Theatre Critics' Awards and a board member for the Canadian Theatre Critics Association.

Aisling was the senior editor of Intermission Magazine from 2021 – 2025. As a freelancer, she had bylines at publications across North America, including the New York Times, the Toronto Star, Exclaim! and CBC Arts. She was a 2024 fellow of the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT.

In addition to theatre, she often covers pop culture (with an emphasis on Taylor Swift). She occasionally covers breaking news.

Aisling has two degrees in theatre, including an Honours BA from the University of Ottawa and an MA from the University of Toronto.

She frequently guest-lectures at universities across Canada, and in 2024 she taught a semester-long theatre criticism course at the University of Ottawa.

When not reviewing theatre, Aisling occasionally dabbles in playwriting. Her verbatim play look away from me, about Canadian theatre criticism and British playwright Sarah Kane, was developed with Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, and in 2020 received an #ArtApart grant from the National Theatre School of Canada. The play is featured as a short case study in the Routledge anthology Undergraduate Research in Theatre, and was featured in Tarragon Theatre's Play Reading Week in 2024.

Aisling is a Taurus (if that wasn't abundantly clear), and she has three cats named Fig, June and Orpheus. She lives in Toronto.