Takahiro Fujita, a playwright, was born in 1985 in the city of Date, Hokkaido. He founded the theatrical company Mum & Gypsy in 2007. Ever since, he has written and directed all of their works. He won the 56th Kishida Kunio Drama Award in 2011 at age 26 for his trilogy Home, Waiting Dining Table, and A World of Falling Salt. In 2013 and 2015, he made theatrical adaptations of cocoon, a manga that was written by Machiko Kyo and inspired by the girls who were mobilized for the Battle of Okinawa toward the end of the Second World War. In 2016, he took the Best Director award for this work at the 23rd Yomiuri Theater Award. In 2013, he staged his first performance outside Japan with Dots and lines, and the cube formed. The many different worlds inside. And light. From then on, he developed more activities, including the performance of repertory works and holding of workshops, in other countries. In 2016, he started Il Mio Tempo-My Time, an Italian-Japanese co-production, and continued to present it while going back and forth between Italy and Japan. In 2018, he participated in the Festival d’Automne in Paris by handing the script and direction tasks for an adaptation of Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets, which was originally a drama film directed by Shuji Terayama. He suspended all activities outside Japan beginning in 2020 due to the pandemic, but made the most of online systems to engage in co-production projects with counterparts in the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, and showed some video works. In 2024, he unveiled Chair / Il Posto, an Italian-Japanese co-production as part of CRISOL, a creative processes project that is held jointly by seven theaters and festivals in Italy. He intends to show this work in Italy before the end of 2024.