His father was from Bessarabia. Among Mikhail Khusid's best known pro- ductions performed in the puppet theatres of Siberia and the Urals are Robinson (1979, 'Tyumen), Per Gjunt (Peer Gynt, 1980, Tyumen), Chto bylo posle spaseniya (What Happened After the Rescue, 1983, Orenburg), Ya Phaust (I Am Faust!, 1990, Chelyabinsk). In 1990, Mikhail Khusid moved to Saint Petersburg, where he became the principal director of the Saint Peterburg Tear marionetok imeni E.S. Demmeni (Saint Petersburg Demmeni MarionetteTheatre). Also in 1990, Khusid created the InterStudio (International Workshop of Theatre, Synthesis and Animation) in Tsarskoye Selo (Saint Petersburg region). In 1993, InterStudio became abranch ofthe Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema. On Khusid's initiative was also founded the International KUKART Festival, Russia's festival that brings together theatres of different genres (music, modern dance, the visual arts, puppetry). The most well-known of Mikhail Khusid's productions of this latter period, in which actor, puppet, the visual arts, video, and music are joined together, are: Volshebnaya fleita (TheMagicFlute, 1991), Kukolnaya pustynya (Dolls Desert, 1991), Don Zhuan (Don Juan, 1992), Bobo mertva. Prosti mne Vavilon (Bobo is Dead. Forgive Me, Babylon, 1996). Since 1976, Mikhail Khusid has taught at various theatre schools in Russia, Switzerland, France and Greece.