Ian Harvie

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Ian Harvie
Ian Harvie at The Dork Forest at Meltdown Comics, November 2011
NationalityAmerican
OccupationStand-up comedian
Known forComedy
Websiteianharvie.com

Ian Harvie is an American

ScreenCrush) were part of a filmed letter to Hollywood written by Jen Richards, asking for more and improved roles for transgender people.[3][4]

Early life

Harvie knew he was

.

Comedy career

Harvie began his stand-up comedy career in January 2002 at a small comedy club in Portland, Maine. Three months later he began performing at a sister club in Boston, Massachusetts. Harvie moved to Los Angeles, California, in June 2006. By November 2006 he began touring with comedian Margaret Cho as her opening act. Cho cast Harvie as a permanent member of her off-Broadway burlesque comedy revue, Margaret Cho's The Sensuous Woman.

In April 2007, Harvie began producing and hosting his own self-titled comedy/talk show, The Ian Harvie Show, at Los Angeles music and comedy club Largo. The show is similar in format to other late-night talk shows but with guests who are all LGBT or connected to the LGBT community. Previous guests of the show include Margaret Cho, Leslie Jordan, Jane Lynch, Alan Cumming, Jorja Fox, Suzanne Westenhoefer, Kimberly Peirce, Rex Lee, Selene Luna, Jenny Shimizu, Buck Angel, Garrison Starr, Sabrina Matthews, and Erin Foley.

From October 2006 through October 2009, Harvie toured comedy clubs and theaters around the world with

Logo again in 2009 on One Night Stand Up Episode 6 and on ABC's late night television series, Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen
, in the 2009 season.

In November 2009, Harvie began his solo headlining career. His one-man show

SF SketchFest
in San Francisco, California.

In September 2010, Harvie and fellow sober comedians Felon O'Reilly and Amy Dresner began a three-person comedy group. They traveled around the US with their collective recovery-based standup comedy show, Laughs Without Liquor: the We Are Not Saints tour. The road show and tour were filmed by filmmaker and director Bobby R. Poirier with a planned release date of summer 2011.

Filmography

  • Young & Hungry (2016) as Uncle Chris
  • Mistresses (U.S. TV series)
    (2016) as Michael Hester
  • Transparent (2014) episodes "The Symbolic Exemplar" and "The Wilderness" as Dale
  • Roadtrip Nation (2014) episode "Know Who You Are" as himself
  • Comics Unleashed (2014) June 3 episode as himself
  • Ian Harvie Superhero (2013) as himself
  • Sexing the Transman (2011) as himself
  • Gaze (2010) as himself
  • One Night Stand Up (2009) episode "Hollywood" as himself
  • James Lipton Is Dead (2007) as God
  • Wisecrack (2005) episode "Outlaugh Festival on Wisecrack: Episode 7" as himself

References

  1. ^ Ian Harvie, Ian's biography Archived 2010-03-09 at the Wayback Machine, 2002–2009.
  2. from the original on 2017-03-12. Retrieved 2017-04-10.
  3. ^ "New Video Breaks Down Why Hollywood Needs Transgender Actors | HuffPost". Huffingtonpost.com. 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-06-23. Retrieved 2017-06-21.
  4. ^ Reynolds, Daniel (20 June 2017). "Trans Actors Ask Hollywood for Roles With Dignity and Depth in Open Letter". Advocate.com. Archived from the original on 2017-06-20. Retrieved 2017-06-21.

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