Leonid Hait Soviet and Israeli director Country: Israel

1. Biography of Leonid Khait
2. Career
3. Achievements

Biography of Leonid Khait

Leonid Khait was a Soviet and Israeli director, creator and head of the theater "People and Puppets," and a theater educator. He was born in 1928. In 1949, he graduated from the Kharkiv Law Institute, and then in 1964, he completed the directing faculty at the Kharkiv Institute of Arts and the higher directing courses of the USSR Theater Union (under the guidance of M. O. Knebel's laboratory). Before dedicating himself to theater, he tried various professions: he worked as a photographer at the forensic morgue of the Institute of Criminology, and performed with his own humorous stories.

Career

In 1956, Khait entered the theater world. He worked as an actor at the Kharkiv Puppet Theater, the chief director of the puppet theater in Tashkent, the chief director of the Kharkiv Puppet Theater, the chief director of the Kharkiv TYUZ, the director and director of the State Central Puppet Theater under the leadership of S. V. Obraztsov, the artistic director of the ensemble "People and Puppets," the chief director of the Moscow Puppet Theater, the head of the department, senior lecturer, and artistic director of the Moscow Gnessin State Musical College. He was also a professor at the Moscow Institute of Culture and a director and director of Central Television of the USSR.

In 1978, Khait became the director of the famous "Theater on Wheels" called "People and Puppets," which was created by graduates of his course at the Gnessin College (Department of Puppet Art, co-directed by S. V. Obraztsov, one of Khait's students being the renowned actor Valery Garkalin). The ensemble "People and Puppets" was affiliated with the Kemerovo Philharmonic and toured the entire country during the stagnant years. Since 1991, Khait has been in Israel, where he recreated the theater "People and Puppets."

Achievements

Khait was the author of popular science films and dramatic works, and he also received awards at international theater festivals. In 2007, he published a book in Tel Aviv titled "Joined the Majority: Leonid Khait's Oral Stories Recorded on Paper".