Ethan Slater

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Ethan Slater
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Slater in 2020
Born
Ethan Samuel Slater

(1992-06-02) June 2, 1992 (age 31)
Alma mater Vassar College (BA)
Occupations
  • Actor
  • singer
  • writer
  • composer
Years active2012–present
Spouse
Lilly Jay
(m. 2018,sep. 2023)
Children1
Musical career
Genres
Instrument(s)
  • Vocals
  • guitar
Website www.ethanslater.com

Ethan Samuel Slater (born June 2, 1992) is an American actor, singer, writer, and composer known for his role as SpongeBob SquarePants in the musical of the same name, for which he received a Tony Award nomination and won a Drama Desk Award in 2018. [1] During his career he has also acted in musicals directed by Kathleen Marshall, Barry Levinson, John Tartaglia, Bartlett Sher, and John Doyle.

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He most recently played the Historian, Prince Herbert, and others in the Broadway revival of Spamalot at the St. James Theatre. [2] [3]

Early life and career

Ethan Samuel Slater was born on June 2, 1992, in Washington, D.C. He is the third child of Jay Slater, an employee at the Food and Drug Administration. [4] [5] He is Jewish and was raised Conservative, attending Ohr Kodesh in Silver Spring. [6] After attending Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, his family moved to Silver Spring, Maryland. [7] [8] [9] Slater's mother died when he was seven, which he describes as a "really big, formative thing in my life. She had left this huge imprint on me, even though I had so few memories." [10] He graduated from Georgetown Day School in Washington, DC, and studied drama at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. During his time in college, he auditioned to apprentice at a Shakespeare workshop, which then got him an audition in front of director Tina Landau. [11] Slater graduated from Vassar with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama in 2014. [12]

His first theater appearance was at the New York Musical Theatre Festival in July 2015, in which he starred as Luis in the musical Claudio Quest , directed by John Tartaglia, [13] earning a nomination for the festival's award in the category for Best Individual Performance. [14] Between September 30 and October 24, 2015, he starred in Please excuse my dear aunt Sally in the One Year Lease Theater Company. [15] In December 2015 he joined the Delaware Theatre Company in Wilmington, acting in Barry Levinson's play Diner, directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall. [16] During the same period he appeared in several short films, including Lightning Bugs in a Jar and Evol.

In 2016 Slater was cast in the lead role SpongeBob SquarePants in Kyle Jarrow's musical of the same name directed by Tina Landau at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago. [17] The musical achieved success and was praised by theater critics, bringing the production to Broadway at the Palace Theatre in New York between 2017 and 2018. [18] [19] For his performance, Slater earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical in 2018, winning in the respective category at the Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award. He is also awarded the Theatre World Award for Best Performance in a Broadway Debut in 2018. [20]

Between 2018 and 2019 he appeared in a few episodes of television series, including Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , Murphy Brown , Instinct and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel . On March 4, 2019, Slater was cast by director Bartlett Sher in the theatrical special of Camelot at the Lincoln Center Theater in New York. [21] Between 2021 and 2022 he starred in the musical Assassins with the direction of John Doyle at the Lynn F. Angelson Theater in New York, playing Lee Harvey Oswald. [22] His performance earned him a Lucille Lortel Awards nomination for Best Performance. [23] From March to April 2022, Slater originated the role of Max Weinbaum in the play Good Night, Oscar at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. [24] From 2023 to 2024, he played the Historian, Prince Herbert, and other roles in the Broadway revival of Spamalot at the St. James Theatre. [25]

In 2022 it was announced that he will play Boq in the two-part film adaptation of the musical Wicked, directed by Jon M. Chu. [26]

Personal life

In 2012, Slater began dating [27] his high school sweetheart Lilly Jay. [28] They married in 2018, and their son was born in 2022. [29] In 2023, Slater filed for divorce from Jay, following reports that he had begun dating Ariana Grande. [30]

Works

Film

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2015Lightning Bugs in a JarBen
2016EVOL: Theory of LoveRonny Goldstein
2021The Man Behind the CameraGerald
2022IntervenorsMilesWriter and composer
2024 Wicked Boq Post-production [31]
2025 Wicked Part Two Post-production
TBALost on A Mountain in Maine [32] HenryPost-production

Television

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2018 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Riley PorterEpisode: "Revenge"
Murphy Brown Officer ReynoldsEpisode: "Thanksgiving and Taking"
2019 Fosse/Verdon Joel Grey Episode: "Me and My Baby" [33]
Instinct NoahEpisode: "After Hours" [33]
SpongeBob SquarePants HimselfEpisode: "SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout"
The SpongeBob Musical: Live on Stage! SpongeBob SquarePants Television adaptation of The SpongeBob Musical [34]
2023 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel StevenEpisode: "Susan"

Web

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2015Redheads AnonymousSam [27]
New Mayor of New YorkNathan

Theatre

YearProductionRoleVenueCategoryRef.
2015DinerModellDelaware Theatre CompanyRegional [16]
Claudio Quest Luis NYMF [14]
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt SallyCastOne Year Lease Theatre Company (59E59 Theatres)Off-Off-Broadway [35] [36]
2016 The SpongeBob Musical SpongeBob SquarePants Oriental Theatre Regional [17]
2017 Baghdaddy Jerry Samuel St. Luke's Theatre Off-Broadway [37]
2017–18 SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical SpongeBob SquarePants Palace Theatre Broadway [38]
2019 Camelot Mordred Lincoln Center Theater [39]
2021–22 Assassins The Balladeer / Lee Harvey Oswald Classic Stage CompanyOff-Broadway [40]
2022 Good Night, Oscar Max WeinbaumGoodman TheatreRegional [41]
2023-24 Spamalot Prince Herbert / The Historian St. James Theatre Broadway [42]

Discography

Cast recordings

Release DateTitleTypeLabelRef.
September 22, 2017SpongeBob SquarePants, The New MusicalOriginal Cast RecordingMasterworks Broadway
September 28, 2018Who's Your Baghdaddy, or How I started the Iraq WarBroadway Records
August 6, 2021Edge of the WorldConcept Album [43]
March 18, 2022Assassins2022 Cast Recording [44]

Solo recordings

Release DateTitleNotesRef.
February 5, 2019Richmond RewritesSingle [45]
July 11, 2019Wanderer EP
July 21, 2020Life Is WeirdEP [46]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryWorkResultRef.
2015 NYMF Award Outstanding Individual PerformanceClaudio QuestNominated [47]
2018 Tony Award Best Actor in a Musical SpongeBob SquarePants Nominated [48]
Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actor in a Musical Won [49]
Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding Actor in a MusicalWon [50]
Broadway.com Audience AwardsFavorite Breakthrough Performance (Male)Won [51]
Favorite Leading Actor in a MusicalWon
Theatre World Award Honoree [52]
2022 Lucille Lortel Award Outstanding Featured Performer in a Musical Assassins Nominated [53]

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