Ethan Slater’s Net Worth is Reported to Be Seven-Figures

Ethan Slater is an American actor, singer, writer, and composer best known for his performance as SpongeBob SquarePants in the musical of the same name, for which he garnered a Tony Award nomination and a Drama Desk Award in 2018. 

Slater joined the world of theater and entertainment in 2015, and to date, he is active in the industry. His nine-year-long career has amassed him a massive net worth.

While the actor has never revealed his net worth to the public, there has been some estimation. There is no definitive number as such but it is reported that his net worth is seven figures — around $2 to $3 million.

Slater has amassed such net worth because of all his work in theater and musical movies. Here is all we know about his career — the spine behind his seven-figure net worth.

Ethan Slater’s career

Slater was born on June 2, 1992, in Washington, District of Columbia. He is the third child of Jay, a Food and Drug Administration employee of Jewish origin. 

After attending Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, his family relocated to Silver Spring, Maryland. Slater’s mother died when he was seven, which he characterizes as changed his life.

He told Pop Culturalist, “When I was 7 years old, my mom died, and so that’s been 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 went on to study acting at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama in 2014.

During college, he auditioned to be an apprentice in a Shakespeare workshop, which led to an audition in front of director Tina Landau.

His debut theatrical appearance came in July 2015 at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, when he played Luis in the musical Claudio Quest, directed by John Tartaglia, garnering a nomination for the festival’s Best Individual Performance award.

From September 30 to October 24, 2015, he appeared in the One Year Lease Theatre Company’s production of Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally.

In December 2015, he joined the Delaware Theatre Company in Wilmington to perform in Barry Levinson’s play Diner, which was directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall. During the same time, he appeared in several short films, including Lightning Bugs in a Jar and Evol.

In 2016, Slater was cast as SpongeBob SquarePants in Kyle Jarrow’s musical of the same name, which was directed by Tina Landau and performed at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago. The musical was a triumph and received high praise from theatre reviewers, and it was staged on Broadway at the Palace Theatre in New York from 2017 to 2018. 

In 2018, Slater received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical, and he also won the Drama Desk Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award in the same category. He also received the Theatre World Award for Best Performance in a Broadway Debut in 2018.

Between 2018 and 2019, he participated in several episodes of television shows such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Murphy Brown, Instinct, and The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel. On March 4, 2019, director Bartlett Sher cast Slater in the Camelot theatrical spectacular at New York’s Lincoln Centre Theatre.

Between 2021 and 2022, he played Lee Harvey Oswald in the musical Assassins, directed by John Doyle, at New York’s Lynn F. Angelson Theatre. His act garnered him a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Best Act. 

From March to April 2022, Slater played Max Weinbaum in the play Good Night, Oscar at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. In 2022, he was cast as Boq in Jon M. Chu’s two-part film adaptation of the musical Wicked.

Ethan Slater’s upcoming film ‘Wicked’

Wicked is a forthcoming musical fantasy film directed by Jon M. Chu based on a script by Winnie Holzman and Stephen Schwartz.

It is the first of two film adaptations of Holzman and Schwartz’s stage musical Wicked, which is based on Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, as well as characters from L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation.

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande play the lead roles, with Jonathan Bailey, Slater, Jeff Goldblum, and Michelle Yeoh in the assisting roles.

The film is set in the Land of Oz and follows Elphaba, a green-skinned lady, on her journey to becoming the Wicked Witch of the West. Universal Pictures confirmed in 2012 that the picture was in development, with Marc Platt serving as producer. 

Chu was hired to direct after a lengthy development process, and many delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, with Erivo and Grande cast in their respective roles in 2021. Principal photography filming began in England in December 2022 but was postponed the following summer until November 2023 due to the SAG-AFTRA strike.

However, filming resumed in January 2024. It is reported that Wicked: Part One is set to be released theatrically on November 27, 2024, by Universal Pictures. It was originally scheduled to be released theatrically on December 25, 2024.

But on March 14, 2023, it was announced that it would be moved up to its current November release date to avoid competition with Avatar 3 and Sonic the Hedgehog 3, the former of which was later delayed to 2025 after Thunderbolts, and later Mufasa: The Lion King took its place.

Wicked: Part Two will reportedly be released on November 26, 2025.