Bio

Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Aisling is an award-winning journalist, theatre critic, and occasional playwright. She primarily writes about Canadian theatre and pop culture.

Aisling is the senior editor of Intermission Magazine, with bylines at publications across Canada, including the Toronto Star, Globe & Mail, Postmedia, CBC Arts, and Maclean's. She was a 2024 fellow at the National Critics Institute at the O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT.

In 2020, Aisling's first play, look away from me (formerly Feast), was developed with the Tarragon Theatre Young Playwrights Unit in Toronto; following the closures spurred by COVID-19, look away from me was granted an #ArtApart grant by the National Theatre School of Canada. look away from me was then developed at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Djanet Sears. The play is featured as a short case study in the Routledge anthology Undergraduate Research in Theatre and was presented as part of Tarragon Theatre's 2024 Play Reading Week.

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.

Aisling was the 2023 runner-up for two Nathan Cohen Awards, including Outstanding Review and Outstanding Critical Essay. She's currently nominated for a 2024 RTDNA award for her contributions to CTV's coverage of Kenneth Law.

She's a Taurus (if that wasn't abundantly clear) and she has two cats named Fig and June. She lives in East York with her husband.