Hussein AL Shatheli is Palestinian-Syrian and was born in Damascus in 1985. He graduated from the prestigious Academy of Performing Arts in Damascus in 2012. He performed in many projects in theatre, cinema and television in Syria, United Arab Emirates and Iraq, for example in the musical Oliver Twist in the Opera House Damascus and the movie Ladder to Damascus. The Exil Ensemble, of which he was part from 2016 - 2018, developed the play Winterreise with Yael Ronen