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Monroe, A. (2025) In a review by Cleveland Classical of Les Délices' most recent performance, The Mermaid, Allison Monroe received accolades for her "nice fiddle filigree."
Medieval music ensemble Trobár, co-directed by Allison Monroe and Elena Mullins Bailey, received accolades from Early Music America for its community participation events. A recent article in EMAg highlighted Trobár's MuckAbouts, alongside similarly community-focused programs by other American medieval and Renaissance groups.
Monroe, A. (2024) As the Artistic Director of Trobár, Allison co-curated and co-directed performances of “I Sing a New Song” with Liza Malamut, Artistic Director of the venerated Newberry Consort, featuring a slate of some of the country’s best medieval musicians. They performed in both Cleveland and Chicago, to enthusiastic audiences, and .
Monroe, A. (2023) An episode of Les Délices' SalonEra featured a program that I created as Artistic Director for medieval music ensemble Trobár. Interviews with myself and another performer are interspersed with recordings of a May 2023 performance.
During fall 2025, Elliot Montague received a MacDowell fellowship for film an artist-in-residency at The Studios at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. During both residencies, he will continue work on his current film project, "The Birthing Series".
Elliot Montague has been invited to be an artist-in-residence at The Studios at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts during the fall of 2025, where he will continue work on his current film project, "The Birthing Series".
Elliot Montague was a script consultant for the screenplay adaptation of Ocean Vuong’s award-winning novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, which is being produced by A24 Films.
Elliot Montague presented his film, "Light on a Path, Follow", as part of the Trans*Revolutions Virtual Symposium, presented by Barnard Center for Research on Women. This symposium featured artist-activists whose work is inspired by and engaged in imagining trans* and genderqueer histories, performances, identities, and aesthetics. He also presented his film locally at Amherst Cinema's "Transformed" series, and at London's Institute of Contemporary Art in their "After Sex on Screen" series, focusing on reproductive justice through an international lens.
Moskowitz, A. (2024) Invited Speaker, "Literature and the Senses." Amherst College, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, October 2024.
Moskowitz, A. (2023) Invited Speaker, “Imperception,” Political Concepts: The Literature Edition, The Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University. March 2023.