Iosef Yusupov

[2] Currently living in the United States, he has designed many shows (plays, operas and TV) in New York City and has worked motion pictures as a scenic artist.

[3] Yusupov was the eldest son of five, born in Samarkand, Uzbekistan to Ifraim Cohen-Yusupov, a descendant of Rabbi Yosef ben Moshe Mammon (Maimon) Maravi.

[4] After Yusupov graduated from the Saint Petersburg Institute of Theater, Music, and Cinematography, he went on to design sets in Russia and Eastern Europe.

He received the State Prize of the USSR for the Arts for help in the production of Oedipus Rex at the Tadzhik Lakhuti Academic Drama Theater.

When he moved to the United States, he met George Tsypin and has worked for him intermittently as an assistant since the early 1990s.