FAHREN – she/her, 8th grade, Monroe piercing, decisive, brutal. Will absolutely beat you in a fight, will absolutely join any fight you are in.
ALYSSA – she/her, 8th grade, perfect eye makeup, loyal, romantic. Will absolutely listen to all your problems, will absolutely tell you all of hers.
SONIA – she/her, 8th grade, she’s new here, brand-new, observant, dedicated. Will absolutely help you with your work, but won’t let you copy. Will absolutely lie to a teacher for you. NOTE: this actor should be able to play an older version of SONIA, too.
COACH DUARTE – he/him, P.E. Coach, so he’s a P.E. coach, deeply self-serious. Flopped jock energy.
SAVANNAH – she/her, 8th grade (should be in 9th), powerful, charming, hungry, older cousin energy, thinking about mortality and illness a lot, raised by her grandma. Will absolutely reply with “that’s crazy” to everything, whether she’s listening to you or not.
OSCAR – he/him, 7th grade, gayby, quiet, all the things are wrong, sweet, sentimental, deeply apologetic. Should ideally be the smallest person on stage, and with a tremendous amount of heart. NOTE: this actor should be able to play an older version of OSCAR, too.
LUIS – he/him, 8th grade, runs track, rude. A mean, bro-code kind of athlete archetype, fairly antagonistic. Ideally should look like he could run track, but then again, it’s middle school.
ERIC – he/him, 8th grade, runs track, trying really hard to sound like he has a deeper voice, is forever nervous that he might not be good enough. Oscar’s cousin, so some relation there.
DAVID – he/him, 8th grade, runs track, too tall to know what he’s doing, Alyssa’s crush, Oscar’s crush, too. Not too many words out of him.
MAURI – they/them, 7th grade, too young but already a queer elder, so very willfully themselves, loves tarot and is very likely deep in witch-Tok. If middle school had case workers, they would be first in line for the job.