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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 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).
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
| 2012 | A Guy Walks Into a Bar | Young Man | Short film | |
| 2015 | Lightning Bugs in a Jar | Ben | Short film | |
| 2016 | Evol: The Theory of Love | Ronny | ||
| 2017 | FunEmployment | Issac's Roommate | Short film | |
| 2022 | Intervenors | Miles | Short film; also writer | |
| 2024 | Lost on a Mountain In Maine | Henry | ||
| Wicked | Boq Woodsman / The Tin Man | Also contributed to "Dancing Through Life" on the film's soundtrack | ||
| 2025 | Wicked: For Good | |||
| TBA | The Man Behind the Camera | Gerald | Completed |
| 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" | |
| 2025 | Elsbeth | Officer Reese Chandler | 2 episodes | |
| 2025 | Gen V | Thomas Godolkin | 3 episodes |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
| 2015 | Redheads Anonymous | Sam | ||
| New Mayor of New York | Nathan |
| Year | Production | Role | Venue | Category | Notes | Ref. |
| 2015 | Diner | Modell | Delaware Theatre Company | Regional | ||
| Claudio Quest | Luis | NYMF | ||||
| Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally | Cast | 59E59 Theatres | Off-Off-Broadway | |||
| 2016 | The SpongeBob Musical | SpongeBob SquarePants | Oriental Theatre | Regional | ||
| 2017 | Baghdaddy | Jerry Samuel | St. Luke's Theatre | Off-Broadway | ||
| 2017–2018 | SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical | SpongeBob SquarePants | Palace Theatre | Broadway | ||
| 2019 | Camelot | Mordred | Lincoln Center Theater | |||
| 2021–2022 | Assassins | The Balladeer / Lee Harvey Oswald | Classic Stage Company | Off-Broadway | ||
| 2022 | Good Night, Oscar | Max Weinbaum | Goodman Theatre | Regional | ||
| 2023–2024 | Spamalot | Prince Herbert / The Historian | St. James Theatre | Broadway | ||
| 2023 | Gutenberg! The Musical! | The Producer (One night cameo) | James Earl Jones Theatre | |||
| 2024 | Edge of the World | Ben | Classic Stage Company | Off-Broadway | Also composer, lyricist, author | |
| 2026 | Marcel on the Train | Marcel Marceau | Also author |
| 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 |
| Release date | Title | Notes | Ref. |
| February 5, 2019 | Richmond Rewrites | Single | |
| July 11, 2019 | Wanderer | EP | |
| July 21, 2020 | Life Is Weird | EP |
| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 2015 | NYMF Award | Outstanding Individual Performance | Claudio Quest | Nominated | |
| 2018 | Tony Award | Best Actor in a Musical | SpongeBob SquarePants | Nominated | |
| Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Won | |||
| Outer Critics Circle Award | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Won | |||
| Broadway.com Audience Awards | Favorite Breakthrough Performance (Male) | Won | |||
| Favorite Leading Actor in a Musical | Won | ||||
| Theatre World Award | Honoree | ||||
| 2022 | Lucille Lortel Award | Outstanding Featured Performer in a Musical | Assassins | Nominated | |
| 2024 | Alliance of Women Film Journalists | Best Ensemble Cast | Wicked | Nominated | |
| Astra Film Awards | Best Cast Ensemble | Nominated | |||
| Las Vegas Film Critics Society | Best Ensemble | Nominated | |||
| Michigan Movie Critics Guild | Best Ensemble | Nominated | |||
| New York Film Critics Online | Best Ensemble | Nominated | |||
| San Diego Film Critics Society | Best Ensemble | Nominated | |||
| Screen Actors Guild Awards | Best Ensemble | Nominated | |||
| St. Louis Film Critics Association | Best Ensemble | Nominated | |||
| Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association | Best Acting Ensemble | Nominated | |||