Keystone Charity Dinner & Comedy Night with Ian Harvie and Maryanne Marttini

Charity Dinner & Comedy Night with Ian Harvie, Transman & Internationally Renowned Stand-up Comedian at this year's Keystone Conference: A Celebration of Gender Diversity, presented by TransCentralPA. For the first time, the Keystone Conference will feature a live comedy act starring Ian Harvie, America’s premier transgender stand-up comedian. TransCentralPA is also making this comedy night into a chance to support The Center's youth program Common Roads! TCPA is donating everything above cost for the comedy night, and part of cost, and making an additional cash contribution for Common Roads. Registration and/or payment received after March 24, 2014 will be subject to availability. ************************************************************ Ian’s comedy encompasses his personal journey of becoming a ‘self-made man.’ His humor spans all boundaries, from gender to politics, cutting directly to the core of the human condition, in all its infinite strangeness. No matter who you are, who you love or where you come from, Ian Harvie will make you feel as though you are family. Everyone will be able to relate to his observations about life, relationships, and the routine challenges we all face from day-to-day. 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! Touted as “the most unique stand-up comic in the country” by Frontiers magazine, Ian has been part of Margaret Cho’s smash show “The Sensuous Woman." He also landed a spot on One Night Stand Up and OutLaugh Comedy Festival on the LOGO Network, Comics Unleashed on ABC and The Trisha Show on CW. Read more about Ian at www.ianharvie.com.