about
Ethan is a singer, actor, writer, musician, and comedian in New York City, originally from Wilsonville, OR.
Ethan has appeared on TV, Off-Broadway, and online in various shapes and forms. Career highlights include getting shoved by a young Mark Ruffalo on HBO’s I Know This Much Is True, singing in a barbershop quartet on the Spongebob Squarepants Instagram, and singing with his high school acappella group “Soul’d Out” on NBC’s “The Sing Off”.
He is the co-writer of Golem Owned a Tropical Smoothie, a new musical about Golem owning & operating a smoothie shop in Panama City Beach, Florida. (Best Musical, Sound Bites 6.0 2019; NAMT Frank Young Fund recipient 2020; Eugene O'Neill Conference Semifinalist 2021; NYFA City Artist Corps Grant recipient 2021)
Ethan is an award-winning vocal arranger, comedy writer, and composer; His pilot “1. backpack” won Best Comedy Screenplay in the Oregon Short Film Festival 2019, and he has contributed as a vocalist, writer, and arranger to Brooklyn-based music collective Apartment Sessions and Scranton-based pop-rock band Modern Ties. He is also the host of Ethan’s Open Mic, a variety open mic with a live band. @ethansopenmic
Ethan’s influences include Norm MacDonald, Nathan Fielder, Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance, Spongebob seasons 1-3, and Casey Frey. He has worked freelance as a jingle writer, wedding singer, audition cut creator, musical improviser, musical improv accompanist, session vocalist, beatboxing instructor, church chorister, meme maker, and more. Ethan is a believer in people, the absurd, and the value of great effort put into a frivolous pursuit. BFA Vocal Performance, Carnegie Mellon.
pictured: Ethan’s Open Mic (photo by Sean Salamon)
