David Elyha has made a career playing Sam Shepard in New York, recently seen as Father Dewis in "Buried Child," Doc in"La Turista," the Cook in "When the World was Green." He played Colonel Redfern in John Osborne's play "Look Back in Anger," Nightingale in Tennessee Williams "Vieux Carre." Ray in "The Last Temptation of Tony," Shipuchin in Chekhov"s "The Anniversary," Avrush, the drunken father murdered by his son in the world premiere English version of Peretz Hirshbein's Yiddish classic "Carcass." At Teatro La Tea he just completed playing The Ghost and Polonius in "Hamlet." His film credits include Thomas Cromwell in "Minions of the Race," and Uncle Jack in "The Culprit."