The Fear of Breathing: Stories from the Syrian Revolution. Paul Wood

      Adam Youssefbeygi | Quataba

      Trained at the Arts Educational Schools. Theatre includes Royal Shakespeare Company Opening Event (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Oresteia Trilogy (Riverside Studios), Victoria, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Private Lives, The Cherry Orchard and Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Arts Educational Schools).

      Television includes The Innocent Project.

      Ruth Sherlock | Interviewer

      Ruth has just been named ‘Young Journalist of the Year’ in the 2012 British Press Awards. She has spent most of the past year living with fighters on the frontlines in Libya and more recently has been working undercover in Syria. She reported on Egypt, Libya and Syria for The Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The Scotsman, The Los Angeles Times and Al Jazeera. She has been nominated for the prestigious Gaby Rado Memorial Award, given by Amnesty International for outstanding coverage of human rights.

      Paul Wood | Interviewer

      Paul has covered a dozen wars in fifteen years as a BBC foreign correspondent. He was in Baghdad for the invasion of Iraq and in Fallujah during the battle for the city. In Iraq, he and his team filmed from inside a crowd hit by multiple suicide bombs, for which he won a Golden Nymph at the Monte Carlo Television Festival and the Bayeux Award for War Correspondents. He travelled behind Serbian lines with Kosovar guerrillas in the 1999 NATO bombing and has also reported on conflicts in Bosnia, Macedonia, Chechnya, Darfur, the Palestinian territories, Afghanistan and Libya. During the Syrian uprising, he was three times smuggled across the border and into the city of Homs and produced Homs – Journey into Hell for BBC’s Panorama. For the theatre, he co-wrote Off Record with Zoe Lafferty.

      Zoe Lafferty | Director | Interviewer | Editor

      Trained at Drama Centre, London, and the Vaktangov Theatre School, Moscow. Zoe has worked for theatre in Afghanistan, the UK, New York, Palestine and Europe, and travelled with Paul Wood and Ruth Sherlock through Syria during the uprising. She is an Associate Director of the Freedom Theatre Palestine. Theatre includes the world premiere of Bola Agbaje’s Concrete Jungle (Riverside Studios and Tobacco Factory), Gaza: Breathing Space (Soho Theatre), Sho Khman?, While Waiting (Freedom Theatre Palestine and International Tour), Alice in Wonderland (Freedom Theatre Palestine), Adult Child/Dead Child (Edinburgh Festival and Unicorn Theatre) and Not a Step Back (Cochrane Theatre). Assistant Direction includes The Dresser (Watford Palace Theatre), Waiting For Godot (Freedom Theatre Palestine and American Tour), Protozoa (The Red Room) and Oikos (The Red Room). She co-wrote Off Record with Paul Wood, a

      Philip Lindley | Designer

      Philip is Associate Designer at the Finborough Theatre, where he has designed Mirror Teeth (2011), Drama At Inish (2011), Autumn Fire (2012), The American Clock (2012) and Merrie England (2012).

      After training as an architect, Philip began his theatre career as a set and lighting designer before joining the BBC TV Design Department. During 25 years at the BBC, he worked on every type of production including Dr. Who, Blackadder, Top of the Pops, Mastermind, Swap Shop, Play For Today, Play For Tomorrow, 30 Minute Theatre, Lorna Doone, Z For Zacharias, The Tripods, Juliet Bravo, Rings On Their Fingers, The Kamikaze Ground Staff Dinner Party, Goodbye Darling, Tomorrow’s World, The 1981 Royal Wedding and The Scientist. After leaving the BBC, he worked as a freelance theatre consultant before moving to Lisbon where he continued to design sets and lighting for Portuguese theatre, where his credits included Cymbeline, Saturday Sunday Monday, The Bear, The Proposal, Recklessness, Tone Clusters, One For The Road, A Time For Farewells and Dracula. He recently returned to the UK and has since designed Nerve, The Good Doctor and Sleeping Dogs (Baron’s Court Theatre), Miss Julie (Teatro Technis) and The Three Sisters (Bridewell Theatre).

      Miguel Vicente | Lighting Designer

      At the Finborough Theatre, Miguel was Lighting Designer for Through the Night (2011), Autumn Fire (2012) and Merrie England (2012).

      Trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Designs include Missing (Tristan Bates Theatre), Normal? (Oval House Theatre), Miss Julie (Theatro Technis), The Happy Prince (Little Angel Theatre) and Chapel Street (Old Red Lion Theatre). Other credits include Kindertransport, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and Hedda Gabler (Linbury Studio Theatre at LAMDA).

      Edward Lewis | Sound Designer

      At the Finborough Theatre, Edward was Sound Designer for Vibrant – An Anniversary Festival of Finborough Playwrights (2010), In The Blood (2010), The December Man/L’homme de Décembre (2011), Accolade (2011), Bed and Sofa (2011), Beating Heart Cadaver (2011), Vibrant – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights (2011), Mirror Teeth (2011), Blue Surge (2011), Perchance to Dream (2011), Drama at Inish (2011), Rigor Mortis (2011), Fog (2012), The American Clock (2012), Don Juan Comes Back From The War (2012) and His Greatness (2012).

      Edward studied Music at Oxford University and subsequently trained as a composer and sound designer at the Bournemouth Media School. Theatre includes Gravity (Birmingham Rep), On The Rocks, Amongst Friends, Heat and Light and Darker Shores (Hampstead Theatre), Slowly, Hurts Given and Received and Apple Pie (Riverside Studios), Measure For Measure (Sherman Cymru), Emo (Bristol Old Vic and The Young Vic), Once Upon A Time in Wigan and 65 Miles (Paines Plough and Hull Truck Theatre), Krapp’s Last Tape and Spoonface Steinberg (Hull Truck Theatre), The Shallow End (Southwark Playhouse), I Am Falling (Sadler’s Wells and Gate Theatre), Orpheus and Eurydice and Quartet (Old Vic Tunnels), The Stronger, The Pariah, Boy With A Suitcase, Le Marriage and Meetings (Arcola Theatre), Hedda and Breathing Irregular (Gate Theatre), Madness In Valencia (Trafalgar Studios), The Madness Of George III and Macbeth (National Tours), Othello (Rose Theatre, Bankside), Knives In Hens (BAC) and Personal Enemy (White Bear Theatre and New York). He has recently been nominated for several Off West End Theatre Awards, and films he has recently worked on have won several awards at the LA and Filmstock International Film Festivals.

      Dan Shorten | Multimedia Designer

      Dan has a BA (Hons) in Theatre Acting, a Postgraduate Diploma in Performance Studies and an MA in Digital Performance. He founded Precarious Physical Theatre Company and Anomic Multimedia and his award-winning work has toured all over the UK. He regularly works as a visiting artist and consultant delivering video and sound design projects for companies such as ION, Immediate, B-Arts, 1157 and Icon. He is currently working on a large-scale video mapping project with partners in London, Prague, Copenhagen, Geneva, Amsterdam, Belgrade and Berlin. He was recently commissioned to produce a new piece of interactive video design for LUX Helsinki and he is also working on new designs to be shown at Barbican’s Digital Weekend and London’s Inside Out Festival in November 2012. He is currently a lecturer in Digital Performance Technology at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he is responsible for all of the AV design for both drama and opera and is currently writing a new MA in Video Design, due to begin in 2014.

      George Ransley | Assistant Director

      George is currently Resident Assistant Director at the Finborough Theatre where he was Assistant Director on Events While Guarding The Bofors Gun (2012), Autumn Fire (2012), The American Clock (2012) and The Drawer Boy (2012).

      Assistant Direction includes assisting Blanche McIntyre on Repentance and Behind the Lines (Angle Theatre at the Bush Theatre). Direction whilst studying includes Rope, Rosmersholm, Housekeeping – Theatre Uncut (Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh) and Amadeus (Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh, and The National Student Drama Festival 2011 where it was Winner of