Mohamed Fita Helmi Bin Tahir (Helmi Fita)
Yilan City Taiwan
Community engaged arts, Literature/poetry/ storytelling, Production/Technical Art, Puppetry Art, Theatre/Drama/ Contemporary circus
Artist (writer/performer/filmmaker/visual artist etc), Arts Manager/ Administrator, Curator, Designer, Educator / Facilitator, Production management
Capacity building for arts sector, Disability/ inclusion, Environment, Healing / Wellbeing, Migration
Lize Puppet Art Colony (Taiwan), The Puppet and Its Double Theatre
Helmi Fita is a multidisciplinary artist, working as a performer, director, and lighting designer. He is currently based in Taiwan, where he serves full-time as the Director of Foreign Affairs and Curator at the Lize Puppet Art Colony.
As a lighting designer, his recent credits include The Selfish Giant by The Puppet and Its Double Theatre (2022), ita/ari-ari (NTCH TIFA 2021), and On the Edge of Reality—a collaboration between The Puppet and Its Double Theatre and Germany’s Tübingen Body Theatre Company—presented at the 2021 Taiwan International Festival of Arts at the Taichung National Theater. He also designed Masses 群众 by Wang Wei, produced by Songyan Lab for the Creative Lab Project (2019), which received the Taishin Performing Arts Award for Best Work in 2020.
Since 2022, Helmi has been curating the Artist-in-Residence Program at Lize Puppet Art Colony, supporting artistic development, creative exchange, and international collaboration.
In addition to his artistic and curatorial work, Helmi actively travels to international conferences and festivals to engage in dialogue and exchange ideas with fellow curators, puppet and theatre artists, venue directors, and cultural leaders. His recent engagements include participation in key platforms such as the Festival de Théâtre de Marionnettes in Saguenay (Quebec), Res Artis Conference in Taipei, APAP in New York, and the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival. These experiences have allowed him to build meaningful networks and foster global partnerships that contribute to the growth and visibility of contemporary puppetry and performing arts.
He believes that, in the right light, at the right time, everything becomes extraordinary.
As a lighting designer, his recent credits include The Selfish Giant by The Puppet and Its Double Theatre (2022), ita/ari-ari (NTCH TIFA 2021), and On the Edge of Reality—a collaboration between The Puppet and Its Double Theatre and Germany’s Tübingen Body Theatre Company—presented at the 2021 Taiwan International Festival of Arts at the Taichung National Theater. He also designed Masses 群众 by Wang Wei, produced by Songyan Lab for the Creative Lab Project (2019), which received the Taishin Performing Arts Award for Best Work in 2020.
Since 2022, Helmi has been curating the Artist-in-Residence Program at Lize Puppet Art Colony, supporting artistic development, creative exchange, and international collaboration.
In addition to his artistic and curatorial work, Helmi actively travels to international conferences and festivals to engage in dialogue and exchange ideas with fellow curators, puppet and theatre artists, venue directors, and cultural leaders. His recent engagements include participation in key platforms such as the Festival de Théâtre de Marionnettes in Saguenay (Quebec), Res Artis Conference in Taipei, APAP in New York, and the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival. These experiences have allowed him to build meaningful networks and foster global partnerships that contribute to the growth and visibility of contemporary puppetry and performing arts.
He believes that, in the right light, at the right time, everything becomes extraordinary.