Purple Crayon

[1][2] The Purple Crayon currently consists of fifteen members, and is directed by Mia Cortés Castro '26 and Amit Kamma '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.

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 Jeffrey Stock, ‘88 John Sylvain, 87 Bliss Tobin, ‘86.

[3] The group's current members are: Vivek Shah '25, Abigail Sylvor Greenberg '25, Noam Scully '25, Anand Srinivasan '25, Amara Neal '26, Prentiss Patrick-Carter '26, Amit Kamma '26, Mia Cortés Castro '26, Eddie Proffitt '26, Sui Yu '27, Miles Kirkpatrick '27, Campbell Lazar '27, Avery Misner '27, Aaron Parr '28, and Alice Kasdan '28.