Ethan Crystal
Ethan Crystal is an actor, writer, musician, and comedian based in New York City, originally from Wilsonville, OR. Ethan has appeared on TV, Off-Broadway, and online in various shapes and forms. Credits include HBO's "I Know This Much Is True", Nickelodeon's Social Media, "For The Record: The Brat Pack" on the Norwegian Escape, and NBC's "The Sing Off". Ethan is the cowriter (book, music, & lyrics) of "Golem Owned a Tropical Smoothie", a new musical about Golem owning & operating a smoothie shop in Panama City Beach, Florida [winner of Best Musical, Best Lyrics, & Best Direction at Sound Bites 6.0, NAMT Frank Young Fund Grant recipient, Eugene O'Neill Conference Semifinalist, City Artist Corps Grant Recipient] 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 his acappella arrangements for collegiate & high school groups have accrued several awards over the years. He's contributed as a vocalist, writer, and arranger to Brooklyn-based music collective Apartment Sessions and Scranton-based pop-rock band Modern Ties. Musically & comedically, Ethan is a believer in the internet, the absurd, and the value of great effort put into a lighthearted pursuit. Influences include comedian Norm MacDonald, Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance, Spongebob seasons 1-3, and comedian 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
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as Greg Skinner (voice)In the fall of 2021, an obscure online channel streamed what has become the most talked-about...
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as Party-GoerThe story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times...
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as Thin SailorThe parallel lives of identical twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey in an epic story of...
TV Show pageThe Sing-Off
as Soul'd Out MemberFeaturing the country's best a cappella groups performing popular songs like you've never heard...
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