Ethan Slater is an American actor and singer who won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 2018 for his performance as SpongeBob SquarePants in the Broadway musical of the same name.
Slater began his professional career in 2012, appearing in the New York Fringe Festival production of Independents. He then went on to appear in a number of Off-Broadway productions, including Claudio Quest (2015), Who's Your Baghdaddy (2015), and Assassins (2017).
Slater has also appeared in a number of regional and international productions of musicals, including The SpongeBob Musical (Chicago, 2016), Diner (Delaware Theatre Company, 2017), and Good Night, Oscar (Goodman Theatre, 2023).