David’s professional training began at the fledgling Theatre Arts Department of Tel Aviv University, followed by a BA in Drama at Manchester University in England. In Israel David pursued a career as a professional actor for five years, working in most of Israel’s major theatre companies. Two out of these five were spent with an enormously successful English-language improvisation group based in Jerusalem, under the tutelage of Jackie Kronberg - from the famous Second City Improvisation group. This intensive training in Improvisation Technique laid the groundwork for most of his later work as a director and teacher. In 1972 David went back to university and in 1976 he completed his PhD. Summa Cum Laude at the Drama Dept. of the University of California at Berkeley (The Surrealist Connection: Towards A Surrealist Aesthetic of Theatre) That same year he joined the faculty of the Theatre Arts Department at Tel Aviv. Later David was deeply influenced by the work of Eugenio Barba and Joseph Chaikin, with both of whom he became acquainted in the late 70's. The work he did with all of these mentors formed the basis for the development of his own unique system of actor training: ImageWork Training.