David De Silva (born August 14, 1936) is an American film writer and producer, best known for the 1980 MGM movie Fame.

[citation needed] In 1976, De Silva began working on a project based on the lives of students at the New York High School of Performing Arts.

[3] The script became the subject of a bidding war among a host of established film studios before De Silva took the project to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), which acquired the script for $400,000,[10] and gave De Silva a list of ten directors they would approve for the project, from which he chose Alan Parker.

[17][18] De Silva subsequently conceived and developed a new musical play entitled Fame Forever: Talent Springs Eternal.

[19] The American debut of the sequel, under the title Fame Forever - Talent Springs Eternal (formerly Reunion and Rebirth) played from September 21–30, 2007, at the Waterville Opera House, Waterville, Maine,[20][21] and also received a co-debut at The Players of Sarasota in Sarasota, Florida, opening around the same time, and running to October 7, 2007.

In 2014 Music Theatre International (MTI) republished the show with the title Talent Springs Eternal: Fame Forever.

An audio book, Talent Springs Eternal (Fame Forever), a production with 25 actors and singers, was conceived, directed and produced by De Silva and released on Audible/Amazon in June 2016.