Ethan Slater Biography

The theater actor also occasionally starred in the cinema, and he received the first noticeable role in the musical “Evil” only ten years after the start of the screen career. Childhood and Youth Ethan was born on June 2 in a suburb of Washington in a conservative Jewish family, where two daughters were already growing. At the end of the decade, their mother died. The father-doctor later married again, so the stepmother helped with raising children.

The spouses had two more sons. From early childhood to 16 years old, Slater visited a camp for Jewish children Ramah, where his father worked. Art and music are inalienable components of the local program, so from a young age the boy played and sang, dreaming of a career in art and without a plan of B. from school, he was also fond of struggle and was later in a university team.

True, the head of the family was worried about the fact that the son was going to connect a biography with creativity, so he recommended that he listen to courses in political science, so that he would continue to continue his studies at the legal department, but this was not useful. After school, the young man graduated from the dramatic department of the Wasseric College of Humanities.

The work of Itan Slateer in the year of an unknown actor was invited to the casting in the then nameless project of the legendary theater director and playwright Tina Landau. Together with Nickelodeon, she had long been thinking about the adaptation of some popular children's project for Broadway. After long disputes, the choice fell on the animated series "Sponge Bob Square Pants." In the draft passage of the musical script with the only scene of the characters, they called Babble Bert and clumsy bean, which was a reference to the early series of animation.

So Idan connected to the show, in the breaks between study at college and during the holidays he rehearsed a lot in the situation of strictest secrecy. He studied the films of Charlie Chaplin and Baster Keaton for hours, trained in the gym, was engaged in vocals and choreography. At the same time, in childhood, he was not a fan of the cartoon about sea inhabitants, since there were no cable television at home.

Then the information about the “sponge of Bob” was first unveiled. The implementation of the project was complicated by the fact that over the years of development, the cost of opening the Broadway musical took off to heaven. At the same time, participants have repeatedly warned that the show may not take place at all. The long -awaited premiere of “Bob’s lips” in Chicago took place in the summer, and on Broadway - in the fall of the year.

Before that, Ethan managed to play in several regional and extraordinary performances, but it was the show of Tina Landau that brought him the greatest recognition. The directors deliberately abandoned the cartoon of the hero, giving him more humanity. Therefore, the leading actor played in ordinary clothes, and not in a square suit. Many noted that the character and actor are similar both externally and in character.

Talking about the role, Ethan said like this: “I did not think that I could give eight concerts a week, or learn all these strange remarks, or climb up the stairs during singing. These things seem impossible, but I worked a lot and was able to implement them. ” The performer stayed in the “Bob’s sponge” before the closing of the Broadway shows in the fall of the year, in M ​​participated in the recording of television version, and did not go to tours around the country and the world, focusing on other projects.

The musical of the “killers”, for which Itana was nominated for the Lucille Lortel Awards, was another theatrical work. The main characters in the performance were historical personalities who killed or attempted to live American presidents. Throughout the theater career, Slater sang a lot and danced a lot in musicals, and also participated in the recording of albums to them. In addition, the actor released a series of his own singles, which he posted on online services, including Spotify.

The artist began to shoot in episodes of films after a year. The lion's share of his screen works was made up of short films and TV shows, including the paintings “Law and Order: Special Corps” and “Amazing Mrs. Meisel”. Ethan also occasionally voiced podcasts, wrote music and scripts, tried strength in directing and producing cinema. Ethan’s personal life in the year began to meet with Lilly Jay, with whom thanks to his studies at the Higher School of performing arts.

She was engaged in clinical psychology, editing photos and fought with sexual violence. In the year, the girl made a speech in the White House, where she personally met with Barack Obama and Joe Bayden. After two years of relationship, Lilly moved from Maryland to Boyfrand in New York. In love, the lovers got married, and four years later a son was born to the spouses.

In the spring of the year, Slater touchingly congratulated his wife on her first mother’s day, but it soon became clear that not everything was smooth in the family. The singer was married with an elite real estate agent Dalton Gomez, but at the beginning of his wife parted. And in the summer, the paparazzi found Slater and Grande together, drawing conclusions about their novel. The stars did not comment on the changes in their personal life, but the insiders reported that their relationship began after parting with the second halves.At the end of the year, it became known that Ethan and Ariana began to live together in New York.

At the same time, the singer periodically returned to the UK for filming in the film. The growth of the celebrity is see. Ethan Slater now an American actor is involved in the set of musical fantasy "Evil", the adaptation of the same name by the Broadway musical. The plot is focused on two girls who turned into witches of Oz Countries - the green -legged Elfba Cynthia Erivo and the beauty Ginda Ariana Grande.

Ethan portrayed a lover in the second heroine of the sides, which later became an iron lumberjack. Slater joined the secondary cast of the “evil” in the winter of the year, when the shooting has already begun. The release of the first part was outlined in the fall, and the second in the fall.