Studio 13
A library of performance scripts for middle school drama.
Each Studio 13 script gives every student a turn in the same lead role — alone inside a charged moment from literature: a grief, a rage, a shame, a wonder. Sometimes an adversary pushes against them; sometimes the moment just sits there and asks what they're going to do with it. The frame is method acting scaled to middle school. The goal isn't to perform the emotion convincingly. It's to actually feel it for the length of the scene, and come back out.
Browse by emotion, by territory, or by whatever your class is working on. Print the script pages and run it next class.
For Drama Teachers
Browse the script library. Filter by emotion or territory, read the scene, print the cast pages, and run it with your students.
For Coordinators
A free SEL program for independent and private schools, built around drama, literature, and the script library here. Read the program overview and implementation notes.
For Researchers
Studio 13 is the research sister site to Our Aria — a place to find the literary frameworks, theoretical papers, and territory taxonomy that ground both the scripts here and the companions there.