Ethan Slater

Acting · Born 1992-06-02 · Washington, D.C., USA

Biography

Ethan Samuel Slater (born June 2, 1992) is an American actor and singer. He played the character of SpongeBob SquarePants in the 2016 musical of the same name, for which he won a Drama Desk Award and received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He played Boq Woodsman / The Tin Man in the musical films Wicked (2024) and Wicked: For Good (2025). As a singer, he has released the extended plays Wanderer (2019) and Life Is Weird (2020).

Known for

• Wicked: For Good (2025)
• Wicked: One Wonderful Night (2025)
• Making Wicked: For Good (2025)
• I'm "George Lucas": A Connor Ratliff Story (2024)
• Lost on a Mountain in Maine (2024)
• Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked (2024)
• Wicked (2024)
• Making Wicked (2024)
• These Untold Secrets (2023)
• Intervenors (2022)
• The SpongeBob Musical: Live on Stage! (2019)
• Evol (2016)
• Lightning Bugs in a Jar (2015)
• Newsworthy (2011)
• The Designer
• Exit Right
• Elsbeth (2024)
• Gen V (2023)
• The Jennifer Hudson Show (2022)
• Broadway Whodunit (2020)
• Stars in the House (2020)
• Fosse/Verdon (2019)
• The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019)
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017)