Ian Harvie

Ian Harvie was born on May 26, 1968, in Portland, Maine, USA, and grew up on Beaver Pond in Bridgton, Maine, until the age of twelve. He has two older brothers, Rob and Jeff. He identified as gay at nineteen and later came out as transgender at the age of thirty-two. His early comedy influences included “The Carol Burnett Show,” Flip Wilson, Rich Little, “Hee Haw,” “Laugh-In,” “Dean Martin Celebrity Roast,” and “Saturday Night Live.” Harvie began his professional stand-up comedy career in January 2002 at a small club in Portland, Maine, and expanded to Boston, Massachusetts, three months later. In June 2006, he relocated to Los Angeles, California.

His career advanced significantly in November 2006 when he began touring with comedian Margaret Cho as her opening act. Cho subsequently cast Harvie as a permanent member of her off-Broadway burlesque comedy revue, “Margaret Cho’s The Sensuous Woman.” In April 2007, Harvie started producing and hosting “The Ian Harvie Show” at Largo, a Los Angeles music and comedy club. This talk show featured guests from the LGBTQ community. From October 2006 to October 2009, he continued to tour globally with Margaret Cho. He made television appearances on Logo’s “Wisecrack Outlaugh Festival on Wisecrack” in 2007, and again on Logo’s “One Night Stand Up” Episode 6 and ABC’s “Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen” in 2009.

In November 2009, Harvie commenced his solo headlining career with his one-man show, “Parts Sold Separately,” which explores themes of sex and gender. This show was featured at the Melbourne International Comedy Arts Festival in April 2010. He also performed his show “Balls OUT with Ian Harvie” at SF SketchFest in San Francisco in January 2011. In 2016, his one-hour stand-up comedy special, “May The Best Cock Win,” streamed on Starz and Seeso. Harvie has also featured in prominent television series such as “Transparent” (2014-2016), “Mistresses” (2016), “Young and Hungry” (2016), “Will & Grace” (2018), and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (2024). He also starred alongside Jesse Tyler Ferguson in Jordan Harrison’s play “Log Cabin” off Broadway in New York and is set to direct the short film “Frosting,”