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Scott Ainslie | Muhummad | Adnan At the Finborough Theatre, Scott appeared in A Letter to England (2007), Witchcraft (2008) and The Captive (2010).

Theatre includes The Old Wives’ Tale (Shakespeare’s Globe), Seven Deadly Sins and Measure for Measure (Arcola Theatre), Song of Deborah (The Lowry, Manchester), Escape Stories (Soho Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet and The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Original Shakespeare Company National Tours), Bring Me Sunshine (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh), Medea and This to This (Union Theatre), Of Mice and Men (Shaw Theatre), Les Misérables (Palace Theatre), Great Expectations, Evita and Aspects of Love (National Tours), A Light Gathering of Dust (Edinburgh Festival) and Twelfth Night (National Tour). Film includes Citizen V Kane (winner of the Prix Canal Plus-Clermont-Ferrand 2009), There’s No ‘I’ in Team, Little Deaths, 500 Miles North and Zombie Diaries.

Television includes Stockwell, Son of Sam, EastEnders and Much Ado About Something.

David Broughton-Davies | Peter

At the Finborough Theatre, David appeared in The Druid’s Rest (2009).

Trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Theatre includes The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Royal Shakespeare Company), Romeo and Juliet (The Young Vic), The Devil Inside Him (White Bear Theatre), The Wizard of Oz (Oldham Coliseum Theatre), The Devils (Union Theatre) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (English Shakespeare Company). David has also worked extensively with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company.

Film includes Lovely Monster, The House of Angelo, The Calling, the forthcoming The Manual OXV and Shoot Me. Television includes Shameless, Go Greek for a Week, Londoners and Casualty.

Paul Cawley | Photographer

At the Finborough Theatre, Paul appeared in The Potting Shed (2010 and 2011). Trained at the Drama Studio.

Theatre includes The Bohemians (Etcetera Theatre), Once in a Lifetime (National Theatre), Troy (National Theatre Studio), The Wideness of the Sea (Arcola Theatre), No Shame, No Fear (Jermyn Street Theatre), Electra (Gate Theatre), Partytime and One for the Road (BAC), Have I None (Southwark Playhouse), Humble Boy (Gielgud Theatre), Arsenic and Old Lace (Strand Theatre), The Man Who Came to Dinner and The Recruiting Officer (Chichester Festival Theatre), Lovers and Songs from the Left Bank (Minerva Theatre, Chichester), Journey’s End (King’s Head Theatre), Dicing with Death (Edinburgh Festival and Lyric Hammersmith Studio) and Guards, Guards (National Tour). Film includes Swinging with the Finkels, Stitched, Black Circle and Problem.

Television includes The Wrong Mans, EastEnders, Spooks, My Family, The Bill, Babes in the Wood, Frank Stubbs Promotes and Numbertime.

Gareth Glen | Ahmad | Qais

At the Finborough Theatre, Gareth appeared in Jamie the Saxt (2007), What Every Woman Knows (2010) and The Captive (2010).

Trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

Theatre includes The Real Thing (Bristol Old Vic), A View from the Bridge and Romeo and Juliet (Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh), The Riot Act (Gate Theatre) and Supply (Paines Plough).

Film includes Don’t Be a Victim.

Television includes Casualty, River City, Low Winter Sun, Sea of Souls, Ghost Squad, Taggart, Foyle’s War, Holby City and Rockface.

Nicholas Karimi | Omar

At the Finborough Theatre, Nicholas appeared in I Was a Beautiful Day (2009) and Outward Bound (2012).

Trained at Rose Bruford College.

Theatre includes Damascus, Aleppo (National Theatre of Scotland at Òran Mór, Glasgow, and Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh), War Horse (National Theatre and West End), Macbeth (National Theatre), Nova Scotia and The Pearlfisher (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh), Mother Courage (BenchTours), Mountain Language (BAC), The Dead Fiddler (New End Theatre, Hampstead) and The Emperor Jones (Gate Theatre).

Sirine Saba | Faha | Mother

Trained at RADA.

Theatre includes Scorched (Old Vic Tunnels), Nation and Sparkleshark (National Theatre), Testing the Echo (Out of Joint and Tricycle Theatre), Baghdad Wedding (Soho Theatre), Midnight’s Children, Pericles, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Beauty and the Beast, Tales from Ovid, A Warwickshire Testimony and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park) and Cinderella (Bristol Old Vic).

Television includes I am Slave, Doctors, Silent Witness, Footballers’ Wives and The Bill.

Radio includes Marley is Dead, My Daughter the Racist, From Fact to Fiction, Arabian Afternoons, English in Afghanistan, The Locust and The Bird, Beirut Days, Baghdad Wedding and Love and Loss.

John Wark | Idris | Ismail

At the Finborough Theatre, John played the title role in Jamie The Saxt (2007).

Trained at RADA.

Theatre includes Dog in the Manger, Tamar’s Revenge and Pedro, the Great Pretender (Royal Shakespeare Company), Tamburlaine (Bristol Old Vic and Barbican Theatre), Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us (National Theatre of Scotland at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh), The Winter Guest (Almeida Theatre), Torch Song Trilogy (Tron Theatre, Glasgow) and The Only Girl in the World – A Play of Jack The Ripper (Arcola Theatre).

Film includes Breaking the Waves, The Oxford Murders, Late Night Shopping and Within the Woods.

Television includes Robin Hood, Taggart, The Ten Commandments and G-Force.

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 the Audience Award for Best Production, the Cameron Mackintosh Award for Best Use of Music, and The Spotlight Best Actor and Actress Awards), Macbeth (Edinburgh University Shakespeare Society Highland Tour), Opera Sins (Edinburgh Festival) and, as Assistant Director, The Cunning Little Vixen (Pleasance Edinburgh).

Tim Klotz | Fight Director

Tim Klotz has been a fight director for almost twenty years and has been resident fight director for the Drama Centre London since 2004. He has worked at Shakespeare’s Globe, Lyric Hammersmith, Gate Theatre, Nashville Ballet, Royal Festival Hall, Sony, SEGA, Rebellion and a host of smaller theatres and educational projects. Tim is proud to be on the staff of the upcoming Paddy Crean International Stage Combat Conference in Banff, Canada.

Sarah Bunting | Stage Manager

Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre includes The Hard-boiled Egg And The Wasp (Lion and Unicorn Theatre), Concrete Jungle (Riverside Studios), Adam And Eve (Blue Rooms, Perth, Australia) and Blood Brothers (Metcalfe Playhouse, Western Australia).

Lucy Casson | Casting Director

At the Finborough Theatre, Lucy is a Resident Casting Director where she has cast Through the Night (2011), Rigor Mortis (2011), Crush (2011), Autumn Fire (2012), Merrie England (2012), The Sluts of Sutton Drive (2012) and the forthcoming production of Cornelius.

Other casting includes The Art of Concealment (Riverside Studios). Film casting includes Tested, currently in post-production, and The Dark Road starring Con O’Neil as Casting Assistant to Sam Claypole.

Elaine Smith | Make-Up Designer

Trained at Edinburgh College of Art. Elaine worked as a freelance artist before joining the BBC, specialising in prosthetics, where her work includes Just Another Saturday, United Britain, Contact, The Fire Beetle, The Grass Arena, Picasso, The Merryhill Millionaires, Frankenstein’s Baby, Song of Experience, Cymbeline and War and Peace live from St. Petersburg. After leaving the BBC, she designed A Respectable Trade, The Georgian Underworld – Bare Knuckle Boxers and The Cazalets for which she was nominated for BAFTA and Royal Television Society awards.

Chris Foxon | Producer

At the Finborough Theatre, Chris was Assistant Producer on Don Juan Comes Back From The War (2012).

Read English at Oxford University and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama on an AHRC Scholarship. Productions include The Madness of George III (Oxford Playhouse), Looking After The Pooters (Compass Theatre), Grave Expectations (Compass Theatre, St Albans South Signal Box and South Hill Park) and This Is India (O’Reilly Theatre). Theatre as Assistant Producer includes On The Threshing Floor (Hampstead Theatre) and Mudlarks (HighTide Festival and Theatre503).

Michael Byrne | Assistant Producer

Michael has worked in theatre for the past five years as both an actor and a front-of-house manager in theatres including the Bush Theatre and Live Theatre, Newcastle. Theatre as Assistant Producer includes Grave Expectations (Compass Theatre, St Albans South Signal Box and South Hill Park).

Izzie Sullivan | Assistant Stage Manager

Theatre as Stage Manager includes Zhe (National Tour) and as Assistant Stage Manager includes Aladdin (Greenwich Theatre). Izzie has been Production Technician for several productions at the Edinburgh Festival and was Theatre Manager at Bedlam Theatre during the 2011 Festival.

Catherine Cooper | Production Assistant

Trained at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. Theatre includes Can’t Pay Won’t Pay, A Night Of Fairytales and Heroes (St Mary’s Drama Society) and All Star Talent (Rose Bruford College).

Production Acknowledgements

Poster and Leaflet Design | Rebecca Maltby

Rehearsal Space | Identity

Photography | Richard Davenport

Thanks to Lucy Jackson, Jessica Bowles, Lynne Kendrick, The Central School of Speech and Drama, Rose Fenton, Nigel and Val Foxon, Julia Farrington, the Free Word Centre and Tansy Adair.

With special thanks to Omar Alkhani, the Syrian Revolution Coordinators’ Union Secretary General.

The Fear of Breathing was developed through Wales Lab, National Theatre Wales.

Matthew Aubey, Matthew Bulgo, Gwydion Rhys and Rachel Helena Walsh formed the cast for the Wales Lab research and development week.

The text of Barbara Walters’ interview with Bashar al-Assad appears by kind permission of the American Broadcasting Company. The full interview and transcript can be found on the ABC website.

We wish to thank The Red Room for their support, particularly Artistic Director Topher Campbell and Producer Bryan Savery.