Ian Harvie

Wed. Mar 18, 2015 at 7:30pm EDT
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Ian Harvie

NAT Productions - Bookings & Promotions & iCANDY present COMEDIAN IAN HARVIE at Cruze Bar!


Featuring the hysterical Chrissy Costa!


You may know Ian Harvie as Margaret Cho’s opening act, a cross-country headliner or a groundbreaking trans comedian unafraid to joke about subjects no other comedian has ever touched.


In the spring 2014, Harvie, with the help of executive producer Cho, unveiled his first-ever live standup comedy special, poking fun at topics from top surgery to his fear of public restrooms to his active sex life in IAN HARVIE SUPERHERO.


Harvie’s unique act queers the traditionally macho, sex-obsessed world of stand up in ways you won’t believe, proving that laughter cuts across all gender identities and ultimately unites us all.


Ian Harvie now co-stars on the critically acclaimed, new Jill Soloway TV series TRANSPARENT on Amazon Prime that won 2 Golden Globes, available now for binge watching.


MORE ABOUT IAN


No matter who you are, who you love or where you come from, Ian Harvie will help you feel like you’re family. His wickedly funny stories are couched in an amiable personality that could put any audience at ease, while his folksy, ingenuous delivery almost – but not quite – tempers his zinger punch lines, making them not just hilarious but seriously twisted. Even if he wasn’t so witty, without even trying, Ian could set an audience on it’s ear, opening up new realms of irony.


He could be your brother, your best friend’s boyfriend or a merely a clean-cut preppie trying his hand at stand-up, but he’s not. In fact, there’s a good reason Frontiers Magazine referred to Ian as “Quite possibly the most unique stand up comic in the country”…Ian’s not “just” a queer comedian – he’s the world’s first FTM transgender comic… which, when put into context, will make his anecdotes about his own phobia of public restrooms all the more side-splitting!


But because Ian is so comfortable in his own skin, and has such an appealing “boy next door” stage presence, not to mention a keen eye for observation and is an adept mimic verbally as well as with body language, his humor spans all boundaries, from gender to politics, cutting directly to the core of the human condition, in all it’s infinite strangeness.


“Ian Harvie is quite possibly the most unique stand-up comic in the country.”
– Frontiers Magazine


It’s this facile sense of ease and not just his gender-bending presence that makes Ian’s humor groundbreaking, and has lead him to make history on more than one occasion. It’s the very quality that attracted the notorious Margaret Cho to not just publicly rave about Ian’s work, but to feature him in her smash show “The Sensuous Woman” and tour with him nationally and internationally constantly.


“One of the smartest and informative events I’ve attended in 18 years of teaching at Sewanee Women’s and Gender Studies.”
- Julie Berebitsky, Sewanee University of the South


Ian says: “I was born female, I understand that and for me that’s is a science word for my biological sex assigned at birth. My gender is something that I get to create and perform daily. I don’t want to have a desire to identify as male, however I do identify as a man, of sorts – those two words are not connected for me. I identify as the following: Butch, Trans, Trans Man, Masculine, FTX (X = something more masculine) and FTM (Female to Masculine – not Male) and so many more.. I also am not aligned with the narrative that I was born in the wrong body, I believe this is the right body, and I just made some changes to it.”


“He’s the comedian Margaret Cho can’t stop raving about.”
– Curve Magazine


Born in Portland, Maine raised on the shores of (no, this isn’t a joke) Beaver Pond, Ian is one of a mere handful of polysyballic New Englanders. Raised on a steady diet of television sitcoms and variety shows, Ian made his comedic debut at the age of eight, standing in front of fitted sheet hanging from a clothesline. Obsessed with “The Carol Burnett Show” and impressionist Rich Little, Ian channeled Rich’s impression of Richard Nixon, and, as they say in the biz, he “killed”.


 
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Cruze Bar 1600 Smallman Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15222