Neil D'Monte.

About Neil

Neil writes the long version of a story most caregivers only get to live. He is in it right now.

Neil D'Monte is a working drummer, filmmaker, and visual artist who has spent two decades inside the rooms where music and film actually get made. He has played drums with guitarist Peter DiStefano of Satellite Party, recorded with the industrial-metal band Tweaker, and shared stages with former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha at Coachella and beyond. His own paintings, drawings, and storyboard work have moved between gallery walls and the production rooms at Robots of Awesome and Sony Pictures, and his film and stage work traces back to Chicago's Goodman Theatre.

That is the public part. The other part of his life is the one most working artists never put on a press kit. Neil is currently the long-term, day-to-day caregiver for his mother. The phone calls in hospital parking lots, the binders of paperwork, the contracts he had to learn to read, the conversations with siblings about what comes next. He has lived all of it, and he is still living it.

That is why he writes for Palmelle. Not because he is a credentialed expert on Medicare, but because he has had to become one. The articles he files are field notes from a real life, fact-checked against primary sources by the Palmelle Editorial Team and reviewed by licensed advisors before they ship.