Durocher with Kermit the Frog on the set of Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
With Large Marvin Fraggle on the set of Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock.
Ben Durocher is a puppeteer, puppet builder, and wrangler who has worked on Sesame Street since season 46. He also served as a performer and wrangler for Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, where he has most notably performed the body for Junior Gorg among other roles. For his work as a wrangler on Sesame, he won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2020.
Durocher's theatre credits include playing Princeton and Rod for two years in Avenue Q at New World Stages, and puppet fabrication for stage productions of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Very Hungry Caterpillar. He has also puppeteered for Helpsters, John Tartaglia's ImaginOcean, the SpongeBob SquarePants short-form puppet series As Told By and Pineapple Playhouse.
Muppet/Henson Credits[]
- Designer/Builder
- The Furchester Hotel
- Sesame Street (season 46-present)
- Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas
- Puppet Up! (Las Vegas)
- The Happytime Murders - New York Puppet Fabricator
- Our Street Is Sesame Street - built Carmen
- Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration
- The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo
- Elmo's Playdate: Scavenger Hunt
- Cookie Monster's Bake Sale
- Oscar's Handmade Halloween
- Elmo and Tango Holiday Helpers
- Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock Live
- Performer
- Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock - Junior Gorg (body), Repeatee Bird, The Great Glitterini (puppetry only); also puppet wrangler
- Rob Lake Magic[1]