I was up all night on the quad in front of my dorm until like four in the morning doing different versions of it, and I ended up just coming in and making it up on the spot, which was great and so fun.” “The one that I got to make up totally on my own was I did a dance to the entirety of ‘Billie Jean,’ but I was being attacked by a bee. For one of his tasks, “I was trying to put on a sweatshirt, but it was rebelling against me,” he says. His audition: When Slater went in for the then-titled The Untitled Tina Landau Project-after opening an email attachment with a picture of SpongeBob to hint at his role-he was asked to demonstrate his physical skills. I did Diner in Delaware, but other than that, I’ve been working on this since college.” I did Claudio Quest, which was pretty awesome, and that’s about it.
Since college, I’ve done some Off-Broadway shows. “We were doing a play together during my sophomore year,” Slater says, “and I actually had just auditioned for an apprenticeship program, and the casting director from that apprenticeship program was working on SpongeBob, so three weeks later, they called me in and asked me to audition for it. Life pre-Bikini Bottom: Slater has been with SpongeBob since its onset, when he was cast in an early workshop during sophomore year at Vassar College, where he attended with his co-star Lilli Cooper.
