Stephen Kramer Glickman

Stephen Kramer Glickman is a Canadian actor, comedian, and singer who first rose to popularity in the late 2000s on the Nickelodeon sitcom Big Time Rush. During his broad career, he has worked as a standup comic, voice actor, and stage actor; appeared on television, film, and web series; and co-hosted a podcast. In 2021, Glickman released The Moving Company, his first musical album.

Born in Ontario but raised in California, Glickman began studying acting at a young age, appearing in community theater productions and later graduating from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. He was already well into his acting career when, in 2009, he landed the role of Gustavo Rocque on Nickelodeon's musical sitcom Big Time Rush. He remained part of the main cast for five years, and over the next decade he used his success as a springboard into other jobs ranging from television and film to standup. He released a comedy album, Stories for Grown Ups, in 2013 and later ventured into singing pop songs.

Starting in the early 2020s, Glickman began releasing popular covers of songs by <a href="spotify:artist:3WrFJ7ztbogyGnTHbHJFl2">the Beatles</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7oPftvlwr6VrsViSDV7fJY">Green Day</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6qqNVTkY8uBg9cP3Jd7DAH">Billie Eilish</a>, and others. Many of these were collected on his 2021 album The Moving Company, and in 2024 he returned with the original song "Paralyzed." Later that year, Glickman's 2021 cover of <a href="spotify:artist:5SbkVQYYzlw1kte75QIabH">Gnarls Barkley</a>'s "Crazy" soared to number six on Billboard's TikTok Top 50 list. This success, along with billions of streams in just two weeks, opened doors for Glickman to perform as an opening act for <a href="spotify:artist:5nLYd9ST4Cnwy6NHaCxbj8">Cee Lo Green</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:1TMMyiSsNzmRiZCAkVLVb2">Lisa Loeb</a>, further solidifying his place in the mainstream. His 2025 projects, like the 3DCG animated short Enormous and the concert LP An Evening with Stephen Kramer Glickman, continue to showcase his wide-ranging talent. ~ Timothy Monger, Rovi