purple crayon

The Purple Crayon of Yale, or the Purple Crayon, is an improvisational theater group at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. The group specializes in longform improv, such as the Harold. The Purple Crayon is Yale's second-oldest improv group, after the Ex!t Players, and the oldest collegiate longform group in the country. The Purple Crayon currently consists of twelve members, and is directed by Noam Scully '25 and Amara Neal '26.
The Purple Crayon was founded in 1985 by Eric Berg, class of 1987, and a bunch of theater friends, among them Ian Jacobs '87, and Adam Gross ‘88. Berg had taken a semester off during his sophomore year to act in a play at the Goodman Theater in Chicago, Illinois, where he also studied improv. There, he learned the Harold, a long-form improv format developed by Del Close and Charna Halpern. The group named itself after the popular children's book Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson, whose protagonist, Harold, uses a purple crayon to draw his imagination into reality. The original Purple Crayon had 13 founding members:
Eric Berg, ‘87
Frances Barney, ‘89
David Baron, ‘87
Frank DeSantis, ‘88
Tom Dowe, ‘87
Leslie Goldman, ‘88
Adam Gross, ‘88
Liz Hutchinson, ‘88
Ian Jacobs, ‘87
Phil LaMarr, ‘88
Carla Power, ‘88
John Sylvain, 87
Bliss Tobin, ‘86.

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