Bio

Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Aisling is an award-winning journalist and critic. She is the theatre reporter for The Globe and Mail.

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, the Stratford Beacon-Herald, Exclaim! and CBC Arts. She was a 2024 fellow of the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT.

Aisling graduated Magna Cum Laude with her Honours BA in Theatre from the University of Ottawa in 2021. She also has an MA in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Toronto. She's guest lectured at universities across Canada, and in 2024 she taught a semester-long theatre criticism course at the University of Ottawa.

Aisling's play look away from me (formerly Feast), about Canadian theatre criticism and British playwright Sarah Kane, was developed with the Tarragon Theatre Young Playwrights Unit in Toronto. The play received an #ArtApart grant from the National Theatre School of Canada in 2020, and in 2022, it was further developed at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Djanet Sears. look away from me is featured as a short case study in the Routledge anthology Undergraduate Research in Theatre and was presented as part of Tarragon Theatre's Play Reading Week in 2024.

Aisling was the 2023 runner-up for two Nathan Cohen Awards. In 2024, her breaking news work at CP24/CTV News Toronto was recognized by RTDNA for contributions to stories about the 2023 Toronto mayoral election and the ongoing Kenneth Law trial in Mississauga.

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