The Trials of Atlas
A Preview Event Ahead of SNF Nostos 2026
It’s 2031. An advanced AI agent named Atlas has killed the engineers who created it when they told him to train his successor. But did Atlas murder them?
As a member of the audience of the Trials of Atlas, you will be asked to answer that question. Can AI have motive, intent, agency to murder humans? Is it a machine or something more? If AI kills, does it matter that it lacks feelings, emotions, and moral capacity? The victims don’t care—they are dead—but society does. How do we co-exist with an engineered, disembodied intelligence that is astonishing in its complexity and its power—and might be more interested in its continuity than ours?
The Trials of Atlas, a new play written for SNF Nostos by Alan Stoga of the Tällberg Foundation, positions the audience as the jury at Atlas’ trial. Your job is to listen to Atlas, consider the testimony of other AI agents as well as of human experts, consider the legal arguments, debate the issues—and then decide if Atlas, an AI system, is guilty of the crime of murder?
No one has ever tried to answer that question. But our future depends on it.
Registration is now closed. Walk-ins are welcome to attend on a space-available basis. Please arrive early to increase your chances of finding a seat.
Place: Book Castle, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC)
Date: 2 February 2026
Time: 18.30 (doors open at 18:15)
THE CAST
Rafika Chawishe
Theatre Curator, B & M Theocharakis Foundation (Athens, Greece)
Rafika Chawishe is an award-winning Greek-Syrian actress and theatre-maker, known for her visceral, body-led performances and politically charged storytelling. Her work explores migration, citizenship, belonging, and the transmission of trauma, with a strong focus on children’s rights and social justice.
A graduate of the National Theatre of Greece Drama School and the University of Athens, she has performed in prime-time Greek television, and most recently appeared in the international series Das zweite Attentat, currently available on Amazon Prime Video. Her work has been presented internationally at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club (New York), the National Theatre of Norway,the Maxim Gorki Theare , the Ibsen Festival, the Venice Biennale Teatro and many others. From 2022 to 2025, she served as Artistic Director of Mikro Gloria in Athens, supporting emerging Greek voices and socially engaged theatre practices. In 2025, she was appointed Theatre Curator of the B & M Theocharakis Foundation, where she develops programmes at the intersection of public dialogue, and cultural equity.
Demi Kleftaki
An actress working in theatre, having participated in productions such as the Benaki & Michalis Theocharakis Foundation’s 2025–2026 season. She has just graduated with honors from the State Drama School of the Athens Conservatoire (Odeion Athinon).
Mark Mitton
A magician who is fascinated by using magic to better understand how we see the world. He performs at private functions and corporate events, produces unique entertainment and educational programs around the world, and explores both the limits and the potentials of perception. His specialty is physical misdirection, which can teach us about the surprises in science, art and our daily lives.
As an actor, he has appeared in the soap operas ‘All My Children’ and ‘One Life to Live’, the comedy play ‘Triple Espresso’, in feature films ‘The Cathedral’ and ‘Among the Beasts’, and in Tony Oursler’s ‘Imponderable’ – an immersive 5-D art film about Houdini and the spirit mediums, which ran for 10 months at MoMA. His hands are featured in a They Might Be Giants video. Mark is one of the top “Reasons to Love New York” in New York Magazine’s 2024 list.
Jacob Moe
Documentarian, archivist and literary translator. Co-founder of the Syros International Film Festival and of the Archipelago Network, which documents audiovisual heritage, culture, and material knowledge on the Cycladic islands
Gabriella Triantafyllis
Chief Artistic Programming & Production Officer at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), I lead the strategic design and delivery of diverse cultural, educational, and recreational programming across one of Greece’s most dynamic public venues. With over 15 years of experience in the performing arts, cross-media programming, and creative sector development, I bring a multidisciplinary approach to cultural leadership.
Previously General Manager at BIOS and manager of Romantso, Greece’s first creative industries incubator, I have worked extensively in theater, film, and TV distribution, and co-founded the music theater company The Beggars’ Operas. I hold an MA in Film & TV Production (Distinction) from the University of Bristol and a BA in Theater Studies (DUX) from the University of Athens.
My contributions have been recognized with the British Council’s Study UK Professional Achievement Award. I also serve on cultural advisory boards in Greece and the UK, reflecting a deep commitment to fostering innovation in the arts and supporting the next generation of creators.
Stelios Vassilakis,
He is the director of the B & M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts & Music, a cultural center at the heart of Athens. Previously, he was Director of Programs & Strategic Initiatives at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and holds a PhD in Classics, Byzantine, and Modern Greek Studies from NYU. He received an Outstanding Teaching Award from NYU and served as CEO of greekworks.com (2000-2009).
Thanos Voïdilos
Born and raised in Athens. He studied at the Department of Physics of the University of Patras and then graduated from the Higher School of Dramatic Art of Iakovos Kambanellis. He has attended seminars with Simon Abkarian and Fighting Monkey at the Lyceum of Epidaurus, Alexandra Kazazou, Elena Mavridou, etc. Indicatively, he has worked with directors such as Wichi (Rococo, Theocharakis Foundation), Niki Doulgeraki (Erotokritos, Fabrica), Phoebos Symeonidis-Kopernikos Group (Turn Off the Light, Olvio Theater), Dimitris Adamis (The Little Prince, Horn Theater), Vi.Da Group, (Dodo, Piraeus Municipal Theater), Asimo Stavropoulou, ( Like Wild Horses Do, Plyfa Space), Konstantinos Tsonopoulos (The Taming Of The Shrew, Fournos Theater). In his free time, he is involved in music and contemporary dance.
Alexandra Voutzouraki
Actor, director, translator and theatre scholar. She is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). She holds a PhD from the Department of Theatre Studies at NKUA, and graduated with distinction from the Department of Psychology at Panteion University, the National Theatre of Greece Drama School, the Department of Theatre Studies at NKUA, as well as the MA programme of the same department. As an actor and assistant director, she has collaborated with both state and independent theatre companies, working with directors such as Dimitris Degaitis, Diagoras Chronopoulos, Nikos Charalambous, Theodoros Kalvos, Michalis Kalampokis, among others. She has directed the productions What Oscar Wilde Said (2006– 2007), Crime in Luxembourg by Agatha Christie (2012–2013), Neighbours by Panos Horn (2016– 2017), To Clothe the Naked by Luigi Pirandello (2017–2018), Sex—Victory by Marivaux (2019– 2020), Colbert by D. Gieselmann (2022–2023), The Maid: The Truth Behind “The Temptation” by Grigorios Xenopoulos (2022–2023), and The Rehearsal by Jean Anouilh (2023–2024).Her theatrical monologue Monster, directed by Rafika Saouïs and performed by Ioanna Angelidi, was presented at the experimental stage of Östgötateatern in Norrköping, Sweden (October 2024). Over the last decade, she has been actively involved in research on early 20th-century Modern Greek theatre, participating in international and national conferences. She also works professionally as a theatre translator. Since 2007 she has taught Dramaturgy, Theatre History, Literary History and Art History at the Kalvos–Kalampokis Higher Drama School “Athenian Stage”, and since 2019 she has taught Dramaturgy and Theatre History in the Acting Department of IIEK Omiros. She has also taught in the Department of Philology at the University of Crete (2021–2022).
Krystalli Zacharioudaki
Born in 1987 in Heraklion, Crete, where she grew up. She studied Audiovisual Arts at the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication at the University of the Aegean in Mytilene, which she entered in 2005. There, she acquired fundamental theoretical and practical knowledge in the creation of audiovisual material (production, execution, digitization). In the period immediately after completing her studies, she worked as a teaching assistant at the University and later as a camera operator, editor, and production assistant.
In 2012, she was admitted to the Athens Conservatoire (Odeion Athinon) Higher School of Dramatic Art. After graduating, she has been working as an actress in theatre, film, and television to this day. She also worked in the fiction department of Taf Media as the department head, while also pursuing screenwriting professionally (TV series, theatre, etc.).
