David Israeli is a first-generation, Russian-Jewish actor, filmmaker and artist proudly hailing from Queens, New York. He graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2016 with a BFA in Film & Television. 

David spent his years post-NYU working in film and production both in the United States and abroad. He has helped produce films in Myanmar, worked on documentary projects that spanned over 20 countries, and created short films here in NYC. His latest film, Lev’s Barbershop, Unisex, had its premiere at the 2025 New York Shorts International Film Festival!

David has most recently appeared in DRAMA - an aural experience (Apple Podcasts, AKS Immersive), Hand to God (Nutley Little Theatre), The Oresteia (Gallery Players), Picasso at the Lapin Agile (CityGate Productions) Zannis All the Way Down & She’s Dead!! (A Masked Comedy) (PIT Loft) and The Truth About Transylvania (A.R.T./New York Theatre Spaces).

He is also a producer of and performs with the NYC-based Commedia dell’Arte troupe, The Department of Fools, having staged five sold-out shows at the PIT in 2024-25! Follow them on the gram and look out for our upcoming workshops!

You can catch him next in the world premiere of The Listening, an immersive, audio experience, directed by Aaron Salazar, written by Jeffrey James Keyes, at the East Village Basement April 7th -12th!

A life-long traveler, David has walked the 800km-long Camino de Santiago, the 1,200km-long Shikoku Pilgrimage, lived in Myanmar, driven from Singapore to London overland and speaks fluent Russian and French. You can find him most evenings making full use of his Criterion Channel subscription (follow me on Letterboxd).

David is a member of Actors’ Equity and is represented by Kreativ Media Partners.