Synergy of Music Theatre (SMouTh)

Who The F*ck Wrote This?

An AI poetry slam (performance) & Devising With Machines (masterclass)

Who The F*ck Wrote This? is a poetry slam performance about poetry in the age of AI. Voice, stage action, music, and AI tools meet in front of a live audience, as text is generated, reshaped, questioned, and performed in real time.

The work draws on the core dynamic of poetry slam: a poem gains force through the presence of the performers and their connection with the room. Voice, rhythm, immediacy, audience response, and the pressure of the moment shape the outcome as much as the words themselves. In Who The F*ck Wrote This?, poetry becomes a live event: generated, edited, spoken, contested.

Texts are produced, rewritten, and performed live, as the stage becomes a testing ground for writing, choice, editing, and responsibility in language. The piece opens space for a poem that comes into being in front of everyone.

Who wrote this poem after all?

The machine? The human? The audience?

The microphone stays open.

Devising With Machines – Masterclass

Who is it for? For anyone interested in a practical exploration of writing, rhythm, voice and stage presence, and in the possibilities and limits of artificial intelligence as a creative collaborator. For people curious to experiment with writing, rhythm, voice and stage presence.

Details

On the occasion of the performance Who The F*ck Wrote This?, first presented within MPArt13 – BRIDGES, at Larissa, Greece SMouTh invites those who want to write, speak, experiment, question and play to the open masterclass “Devising With Machines”.

This is a three‑hour masterclass in creative writing and performance that moves between spoken word, slam poetry and the use of AI tools in stage creation. Through writing exercises, improvisation and performance tasks, participants will work on text, voice, rhythm and stage presence, exploring a collective creative process in which human and machine co‑shape the artistic outcome.

Can we use AI tools to make art?

Who then writes the poem?

Who inspires and who is inspired?

Who expresses and who benefits?

Who is moved and who speaks?

And what happens when we stop treating the machine only as a tool and start using it as a conversational partner, teammate or opponent in the creative process?

Register if you:

- Have some prior experience in any form of performing art (music, theatre, slam, dance, performance)

- Are comfortable using a smartphone or laptop

- Have at least some prior contact with AI tools (no expertise needed — just enough to try things during the session)

- Are curious to experiment with writing, rhythm, voice and stage presence

 Websites

www.smouth.com/pf/who-the-fck-wrote-this/

www.mpart.gr/events/who-the-fck-wrote-this/

www.effea.eu/news/item/2026/09/17/effea-story-synergy-of-music-theatre-(smouth)?originNode=628

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Supported by the European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists - EFFEA

Bios

Costas Lamproulis was born in Larissa, Greece, in 1969. He studied economics, creative writing, and film directing in Brussels, where he lived for a decade. Since 1997, he has been based in Greece while continuing to collaborate on international projects.

He has written screenplays for feature films, including Games in Eden by Stella Belessi and Three Moments by Petros Sevastikoglou, as well as numerous plays and musicals, such as The Rubbish Rhapsody, What a Nice Sex, The Penny Musical, Paramyfiko, Truth, and others. Additionally, he has translated and adapted works by playwrights like David Mamet and William Shakespeare.

As a director, Costas has helmed 38 theatrical productions, including prose, musical, lyrical, and interdisciplinary works. These have been presented in Greece (Greek National Opera, Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Thessaloniki Concert Hall, Thessalian Theatre, and more) and internationally in Austria, Belgium, China, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, and Sweden. His credits include productions such as David Mamet's Oleanna, Lars von Trier's Dogville, and musical adaptations of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. He has also directed celebrated operas, including La Traviata, The Magic Flute, Carmen (awarded the Greek Theatre and Music Critics Association Award in 2010), The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, and Fidelio. His interdisciplinary works include Gravity (and Other Attractions), Present, and L- Do I Need Labels to Love, among others.

Costas has spearheaded several award-winning European collaborative projects, such as EUtropia, Un-Label (recipient of the Power of the Arts Award and 2nd Inclusion Award by the German Gold-Kraemer Foundation), and ImPArt. His short films Outside (2020) and Inside (2023) have been screened at over 12 international festivals and have won six awards.

Since 2008, he has been a permanent creative writing workshop coordinator at SMouTh and the Workshop of Life (OKANA Larissa).

He was a founding member and artistic director of the international inclusive company Un-Label in Cologne, Germany (2015–2020).

Currently, Costas is the founding member and artistic director of SMouTh – Synergy of Music Theatre (smouth.com), the longest-running  and most active music theatre company in regional Greece (since 2001), and the artistic director of SYNERGEIO Culture Space (synergeio.eu), a new theatre venue based in Larissa.

Vana Sleiman

She is a graduate of the of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Law school department) and the Drama School of the National Theatre of Northern Greece. She also holds an MA on “Art Law & Arts Management” of the International Hellenic University. She studied classical violin, music theory, and jazz harmony and has attended workshops in physical theatre, dance, and acting in Greece and abroad. 

She has collaborated as an actress and/or assistant director with the National Theatre of Northern Greece, the Thessalian Theatre, Theatre Athena, Faust Bar – Theatre and Onassis Stegi among others. Notable collaborations include the productions M. Jones’ "Stones in His Pockets", directed by E. Sofronidou; A. Flourakis’ "Odyssey", directed by K. Filipoglou, Y. Reza’s "God of Carnage" directed by K. Filipoglou; "Once to be Realised," directed by M. Marmarinos; "The Man Who Passed”, directed by R. Tsiligaridou; D. Mamet’s “Oleanna” directed by C. Lamroulis, A. Strindbergs “Miss Julie” directed by C. Lamroulis and W. Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew”, directed by E. Boza.

In film, she has participated as an actress in various short and feature films, including "Our Little Act of Rebellion," directed by R.A. Rashid; "Elena’s shift," directed by S. Tsivopoulos; and "Very Girlish Name Patty," directed by G. Georgopoulos. 

Additionally, she has worked as a project manager at Istorima for the creation of the oral history archive, which is now part of the National Library of Greece. 

She is a founding member of Babushka Ensemble (Athens, Greece) and since 2024, she is a member of Synergy of Music Theatre (Larissa, Greece). 

Filippos Zoukas

Filippos was born in Larissa, in 1986. He is a graduate of the Larissa Music School and holds degrees in harmony, counterpoint and byzantine music.

 He is a member of the music group Hidden in the Basement while since 2009 he is a member of SMouTh (Synergy of Music Theatre).

As a composer and performer he has participated in performances in Greece and abroad, including "Eutropia" (Routs & Roots), "Verfluchtigung" and "L" "GRAVITY (and other attractions)" (Un-Label), "Kiss", "Dogville" (Thessalian Theatre), "Politai", "Paramythiko", "Xenitis", "Here", "Truth", "In a Well", "Hug", "Open-handed", "Out" , "Little Everything"( SMouTh) and as a reseracher and trainer in many Erasmus+ and Creative Europe inclusion and accessibility related projects (Creativity, ImPArt, Music, Crossroads).

Giannis Chatziantoniou

He was born in Athens and he studied photography at the LEICA school. He has collaborated with the photographic studio of Errikos Miliotis and Alinta Mavrogeni, where he worked on advertising and architectural photography. 

He has participated in many group and solo photography exhibitions. He also worked as a lighting technician in theaters and concerts and on music videos with the group White. In 2005 he founded Designer’s dot gallery, focused on art exhibitions and visual arts classes. Additionally, he worked as an assistant producer at the production companies ATA and Anosis and as production manager on the short film Heaven on Line directed by Agnies Skavou and Stelios Tatakis. 

He has designed lighting for the theatrical productions: “Karagiozis Outside” directed by Athena Kasiou; “Neon” directed by Ilias Poimenidis; “Sourelaiken” directed by Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos; “The Door” directed by Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos; “Spithovolakis,” a puppet theatre piece by Haris Sakellariou; “The Marriage of Figaro,” “Truth,” “Paramyfico,”, “Oleanna” and “Miss Julie” directed by Costas Lamproulis. 

In recent years he has been a member of Synergy of Music Theatre (SmouTh) and a member of the Life of Film Productions team. He is also a collaborator of the Thessalian Theatre, and he is also involved in prevention through art as an artistic instructor at OKANA, “Life Workshop,” where he gives photography workshops. 

Synergy of Music Theatre (SMouTh) is a non-profit performing arts organisation based in Larissa, Greece. Founded in 2001 by a group of young artists returning from studies and professional experience abroad, SMouTh was established with the vision of creating a permanent hub for artistic education, research, creation and expression. Over the last twenty-five years, it has evolved into one of the most active performing arts organisations in regional Greece, combining professional artistic production with education, community engagement and international cooperation. Over the years, SMouTh has built a significant artistic portfolio, producing and co-producing dozens of professional works in theatre, music theatre, opera, dance theatre, theatre for young audiences and interdisciplinary performance. Among its landmark productions are the award-winning opera Carmen (2009), honoured by the Greek Theatre and Music Critics Association, and Paramyfiko (2013, revived in 2018), co-produced with the Greek National Opera. More recent productions include Fidelio (2023), Loop (2024–25), Oleanna (2024–25), and Miss Julie (2025). Several projects and co-productions, such as EUtropia, Un-Label, L – Do I Need Labels To Love, Gravity (and Other Attractions), have received international recognition for their innovative approach to accessibility, inclusion and artistic collaboration.  

Photos by Giannis Chatziantoniou