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Kevin
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Kevin is a dialect coach. His niche is the Boston sound. His methods are rigorous and immersive (and not for everyone). Working with Kevin means moving to Boston for three months, longer if mastery is not acheived during that time. His clients work ten-hour days and move through a circuit of embedded experiences. First, his clients spend a week in his brother Terry’s bar, then a week in his sister Sharon’s boxing gym, followed by a half a week in his uncle Brendan’s auto shop, then the other half of that week in his mom’s beauty shop. They wind down with a week of ride-alongs in his nephew Matty’s squad car. Sometimes he’ll add on a few days in the newsroom of the Herald where his sister Mary is a city desk reporter, or send them up to Gloucester to hang out with on his uncle Ray’s fishing boat. And everyday, they are required to hit up the nearest Dunkin Donuts and order in dialect until they stop getting funny looks. He graduates his clients when they can convince a diverse panel of twelve Bostonians that they are local. Kevin requires a unanimous vote. Anyone you have ever seen in a movie or television show who had a lazy, unconvincing Boston accent did not work with Kevin.
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(Inspired by Lynda Barry and her (totally freaking amazing) Writing the Unthinkable workshop at the Omega Institute.)