JP Artists Create Puppet-Based Web Series

“Ben & Eric” explores the relationship between two friends - a man and a live puppet.

Ben and Eric are your every day, run-of-the-mill Jamaica Plain roommates. They go to art openings, parties and bars. They hang out together and look for single women to chat with. There’s one difference between this pair and most others, however: Ben is a puppet. Friends Pam Severns and Eric Mearns created ”Ben & Eric”, a web series which highlights the exploits of Eric and his living puppet roommate Ben. Severns wrote in to Jamaica Plain Patch about the origin of the series, and how the pair attempts to keep puppets in comedy. Jamaica Plain Patch: So who controls the puppet? Pam Severns: Me! I'm the puppeteer. It's pretty interesting to figure out how to get a faceless puppet to express himself without using any dialogue or facial …

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