CAA Faculty

Ben Larroquette, joined Sun Valley Community School as the Upper School music teacher in 2020. A 2005 graduate of Sun Valley Community School, Ben is a lifelong musician. He began piano lessons in 1st grade and guitar lessons in 4th grade. As a former Community School student himself, Ben began recording his own music at the age of 13. After high school, he completed a Bachelor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts (class of 2010). Since then, he has appeared on numerous albums, toured across the country, and is the singer/songwriter/guitarist for his three-piece rock band called Mom And Dad. When Ben isn’t making music, well, he’s probably still making music. It never stops.

Kevin Wade joined Sun Valley Community School in 2017 and currently serves as the Co-Director of the Creative Arts Academy (CAA). Kevin teaches theatre in the Upper School and also serves as an Upper School advisor and Outdoor Program trip leader. He currently teaches a suite of performing arts classes to Upper School students. Read more on the Creative Arts Academy page.

Kevin is a 2006 graduate of the school, holds a BFA in Drama/Musical Theater from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, and earned a MFA in acting from the American Repertory Theatre/Moscow Art Theatre Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. Kevin was a teaching fellow at Harvard University, and is also a member of Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers.

Kevin is an accomplished professional actor, director, and educator, having performed in off-Broadway, international, and regional/summer theatre productions, taught and mentored high school and college students, directed and produced a wide range of theatre productions, and created innovative programming and curriculum in a variety of educational settings.

For many years, Kevin served as resident director at the Summer Theater Project for St. Thomas Playhouse; in 2014 he co-founded The Spot, a theater company and acting studio in Ketchum, ID.