Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps
Cast Bios
SARAH AGNEW
Annabella Schmidt/Margaret/PamelaSarah Agnew is appearing for the first time at Arizona Theatre Company. Her credits include Dollhouse, The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde, The Home Place, Major Barbara, The Falls, As You Like It and Nickel and Dimed at the Guthrie Theater; Dead Man’s Cell Phone at Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Twelfth Night at Shakespeare Theatre Company; Hamlet at New Victory Theater; Servant of Two Masters at Yale Repertory Theatre; Sarah Ruhl’s Three Sisters (world premiere) at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; The Syringa Tree at Jungle Theatre Company; The Miser and Amerika at American Repertory Theatre; Don Juan Giovanni and The Green Bird at Berkeley Repertory Theatre; The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Seagull, Medea, Hamlet and Tartuffe at Theatre de la Jeune Lune (company member 1995–2001); Holiday Pageant at Open Eye; and Alice in Wonderland at Children’s Theatre Company. Ms. Agnew’s film work includes Detective Fiction, 1,000 Feet Deep and Older than America. Next, she will be appearing in the lead role of Sarah in Donald Margulies' new play Time Stands Still at the Guthrie Theater.
ROBERT O. BERDAHL
Richard HannayRobert O. Berdahl has worked extensively at the Guthrie Theater in such productions as H.M.S. Pinafore (recently broadcast on PBS), Much Ado about Nothing, Macbeth, A Christmas Carol, When We Are Married, Little House on the Prairie, After a Hundred Years, 1776, She Loves Me, Pygmalion, Othello, Pride and Prejudice, Wintertime, Amadeus, Twelfth Night and The School for Scandal, as well as tours of Othello and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He also produced and directed Warm Beer Cold Women at the Guthrie Theater. Other credits include Triple Espresso at Horton Grand Theatre; Our Town at Hope Repertory Theatre; Forever Plaid at Hey City Stage; and performances at Lyric Theater; History Theatre; Playhouse Square; Michigan Ensemble Theater; State Theater, Michigan; and Maine State Music Theater. Mr. Berdahl’s film and television credits include Hole in the Wall, Bind, Dreamer, Great Lakes, Private Eyes and House of Four Doors. He is a graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College and California Institute of the Arts.
JIM LICHTSCHEIDL
ClownJim Lichtscheidl has appeared in 25 productions at the Guthrie Theater since 1998. His regional work includes Tiny Kushner at Tricycle Theatre, London/Berkeley Repertory Theatre; The Miser at La Jolla Playhouse/Alley Theatre/Berkeley Repertory Theatre/Actors Theatre of Louisville/Theatre de la Jeune Lune; Stones in His Pockets, Richard III, Little Shop of Horrors, In a Garden, Ragtime, Waiting for Godot, At Your Service and King Lear at Ten Thousand Things Theater; and appearances at Theatre Latté Da; The Jungle Theater; Park Square Theatre; Brave New Workshop; 15 Head; Frank Theatre; Open Eye Figure Theatre; and Thirst Theater. Mr. Lichtscheidl’s film work includes A Serious Man, Factotum and With or Without You. He is the recipient of an Ivey Award, as well as a “Best of the Fringe” Award and City Pages’ “Best of the Twin Cities” for original creation Knock!
LUVERNE SEIFERT
ClownLuverne Seifert has appeared in Man of La Mancha, My Fair Lady, Othello, Richard III, Little Shop of Horrors, Antigone, King Lear and others at Ten Thousand Things Theater; Amerika, Gulliver’s Travels, Hamlet, Chez Pierre, The Golem, Tartuffe, Queen, Red Harvest, Twelfth Night, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Yang Zen Froggs, Don Juan Giovanni, Germinal, and others at Theatre de la Jeune Lune (Artistic Associate, 1994–99); The 39 Steps, The Government Inspector and The Ugly One at the Guthrie Theater; 800 Words at Workhaus Collective; The Pillowman, Machinal, Sincerity Forever and Macbeth at Frank Theatre; Marsupial Girl, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and others at Children’s Theatre Company; and The Holiday Pageant at Open Eye Figure Theatre. Mr. Seifert is the Head of BA Performance in the Deparment of Theatre and Dance at University of Minnesota. He was the recipient of a 2002 McKnight Fellowship for Theater Artists. He received a BA in Theater Arts from Augsburg College and has trained in Switzerland with the internationally renowned clown Pierre Byland.
