Aisling trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and has worked professionally across the UK in stage and screen. Aisling’s special skills include devising, improvisation, ensemble work, motion capture and voice over.
Professional work includes Volcano Theatre Company’s Under Milk Wood (dir Paul Davies), National Theatre of Wales’ Storm 2:Things Come apart (dir Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes), Conall Morrison’s production of The Crucible at the Lyric Theatre, Three’s Theatre Company’s site-specific Date Show and Date Show After Dark (dir Anna Leckey and Colm Doran) at The MAC Belfast and Bullitt Hotel, the lead female in Ulster Theatre Company’s productions of Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk (Armagh Market Place Theatre, Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoighaire), and the immersive Secret Journeys (Teatro all’improvviso). Screen work includes the BBC’s The Indian Doctor (dir Lee Haven-Jones) and short films The Wedding Speech (dir Joe McStravick) and female lead in Chancer (dir Patrick Maxwell). Voiceover work includes the character of Hope in award winning computer game Baldur’s Gate 3 (Pitstop Productions) and multiple key characters in Andy and The Band’s Rockin’ Road Trips Podcast (CBBC and Ninja Pig).
Last year, Aisling played the lead in short film Pub House (Village Films, dir: Peter Young). It is one of three shorts that has been nominated for Best Northern Irish Film at the British Short Film Awards. It’s been doing the rounds of festivals across the UK and Ireland and was selected for BFI Film Festival. It was shown as part of the “Safe and Sound” programme – 4 female-led shorts all with focus on trauma in a home space made unfamiliar.
In Volcano’s Under Milk Wood, as part of a 5 strong ensemble cast Aisling was able to utilise her devising, movement, improvisation and singing skills to create “punk rock Dylan on acid for the 21st century” . Aisling has worked with devised theatre company, Curious Doings (dir. Mary-Frances Doherty) on a number of productions at the Mac Belfast and Lyric Theatre Belfast. Their work is highly physical, visceral and full of the unexpected. She helped create the two woman show Just for Tonight which she went on to perform in Brussels to promote the culture and creativity of Northern Ireland.
Aisling is an experienced musical theatre improviser and regularly performed as part of the improvised musical Notflix in which 6 actresses and a band improvised an original comedy musical inspired by film suggestions from the audience. They toured throughout the UK and had sell out shows at theGilded Balloon’s flagship Edinburgh venue, The Debating Hall and the Soho Theatre. She has now gone on to create her own improvised musical collective Glamazon Prime.
Further training includes Prime Cut Productions’ Actors/ Dancers Lab. Led by two members of Frantic Assembly, 20 professional actors and dancers spent a week devising a piece of theatre inspired by one prop, a bed. She also participated in Tinderbox Theatre Company’s 11 week Play Machine programme. Physical workshops explored the craft of using play to create and tell stories, using movement dynamics, the methodology of play and ensemble work.
Aisling is a Spanish speaker, Irish dancer, qualified TEFL teacher and mathematics graduate. She has also written and released original music in collaboration with actor-musician Marcelo Cervone and Brazilian musician and Neo-Romantic composer Ze Carlos Medeiros. Aisling’s spoken word style combined with Marcelo’s rock & pop songwriting and Zé’s western art genre background has produced cinematic and Neo-romantic era pop songs with a Bossa-Nova-esque groove.
Aisling is also available for family Castings with her partner and son.