On January 10th, the Improv Club, led by seniors Tommy Folan ’25 and Stephen Agular ’25, hosted the Purple Crayon of Yale in the theater for an improv class. The Purple Crayon is the oldest collegiate long-form improv group in the country, consisting of fifteen current members. The group is named after the popular children’s book Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson, whose main character is a child who can turn his wildest dreams into reality by drawing with his purple crayon. Inspired by the book, one of the Purple Crayon’s most commonly used improv formats is called the Harold. The improv group started off with an introduction game where everyone went around in a large circle and said their name and a word that corresponded to the first letter of their name. After this warm-up exercise, the group proceeded to give everyone a short performance of “cube”, consisting of four actors forming a cubic shape and trading jokes and narratives off of each other. Each “face” with two actors was given a theme and location to improvise off of, with the side facing the audience performing. After a random amount of time, the cube would shift left or right and the next set of people would perform. Attendee Brady Paquette ’25 remarked, “I loved that the group made the environment incredibly inclusive, and allowed students who usually weren’t familiar with improv at all to feel comfortable. I was part of a small group of guys who showed up with no previous improv experience, and it was a pretty cool introduction to a world I had never even thought of being a part of.” Improv Club Head Tommy Folan added, “I thought it was a great time overall for all of the students who came to meet the group. I want to give a huge shout-out to the Purple Crayon for broadening a lot of our guys’ horizons and thank them for this experience!”