David A. Permut (born March 23, 1954) is a multiple Academy Award nominated film producer and founder of Permut Presentations based in Beverly Hills, California. Permut was born in New York City, New York to a Jewish family, the son of entrepreneur Lee Permut. His father moved the family from Manhattan to Los Angeles while he was a teen. While a youth, he sold maps to the Hollywood homes of the stars and later mixed with them at the Palm Springs Racquet Club and the Tennis Club, after his father purchased a second home in Palm Springs in the 1970s. He was introduced to Bill Sargent through his father. Sargent employed Permut, tasking him with soliciting agents to secure casting for a stage play he wanted to film; the project never came to fruition. Permut then went to work as a gofer for Roger Corman while he was taking classes at UCLA and later accepted a job at an independent talent agency in Beverly Hills. Since his early days working with Bill Sargent as an unabashed producer, who, at 21, tried something unheard of, shooting the live stage play "Give em' Hell, Harry! starring James Whitmore in one single take which went to be nominated for an Academy Award. The landmark achievement of the first theatrical live comedy concert film, 1979's Richard Pryor: Live in Concert, truly put Permut on the map and skyrocketed his career. Through his Permut Presentations banner, David Permut has been a prolific supplier of critically and commercially successful projects for the major studios, networks and top independent labels worldwide. David has premiered films at all of the major film festivals including Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Sundance, SXSW and Tribeca. He produced two of the highest-grossing films in 1987, Dragnet and Blind Date. Blind Date was the first feature film starring Bruce Willis while Dragnet was the film that started the trend of adapting television shows into feature films. Permut's other notable film credits include comedies such as The Marrying Man (1991), written by critically acclaimed playwright Neil Simon, 29th Street (1991), Captain Ron (1992) starring Kurt Russell, Eddie (1996) starring Whoopi Goldberg, Double Take (2001), and Dysfunktional Family (2003). On the dramatic side, Permut produced the action blockbuster Face/Off (1997) starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage, directed by John Woo and Consenting Adults (1992) directed by Academy Award nominated director Alan J. Pakula. In addition to studio films, Permut has produced a number of independents including the critically acclaimed Charlie Bartlett starring Anton Yelchin and Robert Downey Jr., Youth in Revolt (2009); starring Michael Cera based on classic cult-novel by C.D. Payne and Struck By Lightning, written by and starring Chris Colfer (Glee), which was released in 2012, and Match Permut lives in Westwood, California and has a second home in Palm Springs with his partner, John Seiber, who works at Alzheimer's Greater Los Angeles as vice president of development.

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