Sarah Agnew was an Indian Princess and can eat a whale

Meeting Sarah Agnew at her home on a sunny early November day, I’m enveloped by a sense of coziness. Her shaggy dog, her newborn son, tea brewing in the kitchen, sun streaming in the windows: a perfect time and place to discuss her life in art, curse words and happiness. Sarah is, as you might expect if you’ve ever seen her onstage, a charming and appealing conversationalist, peppering her answers with revealing honesty and open laughter. She’s game for all questions, all challenges. Including the infamously puffed up James Lipton’s famous queries. Having recently toured the country with a wildly popular production of Servant of Two Masters (which played here at the Guthrie), Sarah is currently appearing in The Moving Company’s How did you get here? I never meant to live here. When I graduated college I did an apprenticeship with the Actors Theater of Louisville, with What is your idea of perfect happiness? I feel like I’m having it right now. I had a wonderful, what I call my First Life. And it ended very sadly. Now I have this chance at a Second Life. And I have such an awareness of my good fortune. I have this wonderful husband, and I have this good fortune to have this child. I’m cognizant every day of what I have. And I’m in this community, and I have my health. I’m having that perfect happiness right now. I feel like there was a little crack in the door and I was able to scurry right through it. I feel super lucky and super happy.