Television includes New Tricks IX, Injustice, Zen, Red Riding Trilogy -1983, The Execution of Gary Glitter, Lewis, Frances Tuesday, Murder City, Silent Witness, Baby Father, Midsomer Murders, Serious & Organised, Monarch of the Glen, Deacon Brodie, The Justice Game, King of Hearts, First Take, Zorro: The Reward, To Each His Own, William Tell, Roll Over Beethoven, Poppyland, The Kit Curran Radio Show, Forever Young, Leaving and Gaskin.
Film includes Far From the Madding Crowd, Serena, Power of Three, Stroke of Genius, Mansfield Park, Return of the Jedi, Secret Rapture, Greystoke andThe French Lieutenant’s Woman.
Laura Prior | Yael/Sara/Claire
Laura trained at Rose Bruford College.
Theatre includes Potholes (Theatre503), The Midnight Princess (Rose Theatre Kingston), Eisteddfod (HighTide Festival Theatre for Latitude Festival), The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare’s Globe), Epidemic (Old Vic New Voices), Blue Sky/Green Forest (Arcola Theatre), The Witch of Edmonton (Shakespeare’s Globe) and Loyal Women (Greenwich Theatre).
Sirine Saba | Haneen/Asma
Sirine trained at RADA.
Theatre includes The Winter’s Tale, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night and HMS Pinafore (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park), The Fear of Breathing (Finborough Theatre), Scorched (Old Vic Tunnels), Nation and Sparkleshark (National Theatre), Testing the Echo (Out of Joint/Tricycle Theatre), Baghdad Wedding (Soho Theatre), Rough Cuts: the Spiral and The Rise and Fall of a Lebanese Pop Princess (Royal Court 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) and Cinderella (Bristol Old Vic).
Television includes Doctors, I am Slave, Silent Witness, Footballers’ Wives, The Bill and Prometheus.
Film includes Exhibition, Maestro and Revolution.
Sirine has also recorded a wide variety of plays, books and short stories for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4, including most recently The Brick, The Insider, The Reluctant Spy and The Deportation Room.
Patrick Toomey | Tarek/Muhib
Patrick trained at LAMDA.
Theatre includes Casualties (Park Theatre), The Father (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry), Lovebirds (Southwark Playhouse), Wild Horses (Theatre503), On the Waterfront (Hackney Empire), Edward II and Richard II (Shakespeare’s Globe), Mister Heracles (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The School for Scandal (Derby Theatre Royal and Northampton Theatre Royal), Sweet Phoebe (Hen and Chickens), The John Wayne Principle (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton), The Boys in the Band (Aldwych Theatre), The School for Scandal (English Touring Theatre), The Recuiting Officer, The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh), The Blue Angel (Gielgud Theatre), The Woman in Black (Fortune Theatre), The Country Wife (Holland Park), Lady Betty and As You Like It (Cheek by Jowl), A Small Family Business (Birmingham Rep), Romeo and Juliet (London Shakespeare Group), The Beaux’ Stratagem (Scarborough) and Pommies (Warehouse Theatre).
Television includes Doc Martin, The Escape Artist, Vera, Law and Order UK, Missing, Mutual Friends, Holby City, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, The Courtroom, Hollyoaks, The Only Boy For Me, The Bill, William and Mary, Monarch of the Glen, Jackson’s Wharf, Water Rats, Heartbeat, The House of Angelo, Murder Most Horrid, Annie’s Bar, Over Here, Cadfael, The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Streetwise and The Two of Us. Film includes Walking with the Enemy, Balloon Man, The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb, Arsene Lupin and Pressure Point.
Radio includes Soho Nights and The Father.
John Wark | Abner
John 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), The Only Girl in the World (Arcola Theatre), Jamie the Saxt and The Fear of Breathing (Finborough Theatre) and Thark (Park Theatre).
Television includes Robin Hood, Taggart, The Ten Commandments and G-Force.
Film includes The Fitzroy, A Little Chaos, Breaking the Waves, The Oxford Murders, Late Night Shopping and Within the Woods. John has recently been cast in Werner Herzog’s forthcoming film Queen of the Desert.
Omar El-Khairy | Playwright
Omar is the Leverhulme Associate Playwright at the Bush Theatre and co-founder of the international theatre and film collective Paper Tiger. He is developing a new play A Soldier Dreams of White Tulips as part of Paper Tiger’s residency as Associate Artists at Ovalhouse, where his first full-length play Sour Lips recently premiered. Theatre includes Return to Sender (Orange Tree Theatre), Given the Times (Finborough Theatre), Polling Booth (Theatre503), Eyelids (Unicorn Theatre), Lovestrong (Lyric Hammersmith), Burst (Zoo Venues, Edinburgh Festival), Longitude (The Public Theatre, New York) and The Arc (Arcola Theatre). His short film No Exit is in production with Idioms Film in the West Bank, Palestine, and he is now developing his first feature length screenplay, Sheikh. Omar holds a PhD in Political Sociology from the LSE.
Zoe Lafferty | Developer and Director
Zoe trained at Drama Centre, London and the Vaktangov Theatre School, Moscow. Zoe has directed, written and researched for theatre in Afghanistan, the US, Palestine, Europe and Japan, and travelled in secret through Syria during the uprising to collect material for her verbatim play The Fear of Breathing. She is Associate Director of The Freedom Theatre Palestine and Associate Director and board member of The Red Room Theatre Company. Directing includes The Fear of Breathing (Finborough Theatre; Akasaka Red Theatre, Tokyo), the world premiere