Английская Википедия:Ethan Slater

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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. During his career he has also acted in musicals directed by Kathleen Marshall, Barry Levinson, John Tartaglia, Bartlett Sher, and John Doyle.

He is currently playing the Historian, Prince Herbert, and others in the Broadway revival of Spamalot at the St. James Theatre.

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, and is of Jewish descent. After attending Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, his family moved to Silver Spring, Maryland. 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." 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. Slater graduated from Vassar with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama in 2014.

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, earning a nomination for the festival's award in the category for Best Individual Performance. Between September 30 and October 24, 2015, he starred in Please excuse my dear aunt Sally in the One Year Lease Theater Company. In December 2015 he joined the Delaware Theatre Company in Wilmington, acting in Barry Levinson's play Diner, directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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. His performance earned him a Lucille Lortel Awards nomination for Best Performance. From March to April 2022, Slater originated the role of Max Weinbaum in the play Good Night, Oscar at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.

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.

Personal life

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

Works

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2015	Lightning Bugs in a Jar	Ben
2016	EVOL: Theory of Love	Ronny Goldstein
2021	The Man Behind the Camera	Gerald
2022	Intervenors	Miles	Writer and composer
2024	Wicked: Part One	Boq	Post-production
2025	Wicked: Part Two		Filming
TBA	Lost on A Mountain in Maine	Henry	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2018	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Riley Porter	Episode: "Revenge"
	Murphy Brown	Officer Reynolds	Episode: "Thanksgiving and Taking"
2019	Fosse/Verdon	Joel Grey	Episode: "Me and My Baby"
	Instinct	Noah	Episode: "After Hours"
	SpongeBob SquarePants	Himself	Episode: "SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout"
	The SpongeBob Musical: Live on Stage!	SpongeBob SquarePants	Television adaptation of The SpongeBob Musical
2023	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel	Steven	Episode: "Susan"

Web

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2015	Redheads Anonymous	Sam
	New Mayor of New York	Nathan

Theatre

Year	Production	Role	Venue	Category	Ref.
2015	Diner	Modell	Delaware Theatre Company	Regional
	Claudio Quest	Luis	NYMF
	Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally	Cast	One Year Lease Theatre Company (59E59 Theatres)	Off-Off-Broadway
2016	The SpongeBob Musical	SpongeBob SquarePants	Oriental Theatre	Regional
2017	Baghdaddy	Jerry Samuel	St. Luke's Theatre	Off-Broadway
2017–18	SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical	SpongeBob SquarePants	Palace Theatre	Broadway
2019	Camelot	Mordred	Lincoln Center Theater
2021–22	Assassins	The Balladeer / Lee Harvey Oswald	Classic Stage Company	Off-Broadway
2022	Good Night, Oscar	Max Weinbaum	Goodman Theatre	Regional
2023-24	Spamalot	Prince Herbert / The Historian	St. James Theatre	Broadway

Discography

Cast recordings

Release Date	Title	Type	Label	Ref.
September 22, 2017	SpongeBob SquarePants, The New Musical	Original Cast Recording	Masterworks Broadway
September 28, 2018	Who's Your Baghdaddy, or How I started the Iraq War		Broadway Records
August 6, 2021	Edge of the World	Concept Album
March 18, 2022	Assassins	2022 Cast Recording

Solo recordings

Release Date	Title	Notes	Ref.
February 5, 2019	Richmond Rewrites	Single
July 11, 2019	Wanderer	EP
July 21, 2020	Life Is Weird	EP

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2015	NYMF Award	Outstanding Individual Performance	Claudio Quest	Шаблон:Nominated
2018	Tony Award	Best Actor in a Musical	SpongeBob SquarePants	Шаблон:Nominated
	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Actor in a Musical		Шаблон:Won
	Outer Critics Circle Award	Outstanding Actor in a Musical		Шаблон:Won
	Broadway.com Audience Awards	Favorite Breakthrough Performance (Male)		Шаблон:Won
		Favorite Leading Actor in a Musical		Шаблон:Won
	Theatre World Award			Шаблон:Won
2022	Lucille Lortel Award	Outstanding Featured Performer in a Musical	Assassins	Шаблон:Nominated

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