Charles Pratt Jr.


Charles Pratt Jr. is an American television writer, producer and director.
In September 2014, it was revealed that Pratt had been hired as head writer and co-executive producer of The Young and the Restless. In September 2016, it was confirmed that Pratt was leaving his position at The Young and the Restless to become show-runner and executive producer of the primetime series Star. In 2021, he was hired to be a producer on the Disney Channel Original Mystery Series Secrets of Sulphur Springs. The show premiered in January of that year.

Daytime soap opera positions held

All My Children
General Hospital
  • Consulting producer: May 2004 – March 28, 2006
  • Head writer : June 13, 2002 – March 10, 2006
  • Script Writer: 1982–1984
Santa Barbara
  • Script Writer: 1985–1986
  • Co-head writer : December 1986 – January 1989
  • Head writer: January 1989 – May 1990
Sunset Beach
The Young and the Restless
  • Head writer: January 16, 2015 – December 6, 2016
  • Executive Producer : January 16, 2015 – July 12, 2016; : July 13, 2016 – December 6, 2016

    Other positions held

Beverly Hills, 90210
  • Director: January 28, 1998 – "Rebound"
Cruel Intentions 2
  • Executive Producer: 2001
Desperate Housewives
Gabriel's Fire
  • Executive Storyline Consultant: 1991
  • Writer: 1990-1991; "Postcards from the Faultline", "Belly of the Beast", “Windows”
The Lying Game
  • Executive Producer: 2011–2013
  • Developer
Melrose Place
  • Writer: July 15, 1992 – May 24, 1999
  • Supervising Producer: 1993–1994
  • Co-Executive Producer: September 11, 1995 – May 24, 1999
  • Director: 1996–1999
  • Wrote and directed the last episode
Models Inc.
  • Executive Producer: 1994-1995
Pacific Palisades
  • Consultant
  • Director
The Colbys
  • Writer: January 16, 1986 – "The Turning Point"
Titans
  • Head writer: 2000
  • Executive Producer: 2000
Ugly Betty
  • Consulting Producer: 2007–2010
Secrets of a Small Town
  • Creator: 2006
The Apostles
  • Creator: 2008
Full House
  • Writer: "A Pinch for a Pinch" aired on October 26, 1990.
Star
  • Executive Producer: 2016–2017

    Awards and nominations

Pratt has been nominated for multiple Daytime Emmys. He won the 1991 Emmy for Outstanding Writing Team, with Sheri Anderson, Samuel D. Ratcliffe, Maralyn Thoma, Josh Griffith, Robert Guza Jr., Linda Hammer, Lynda Myles, Frank Salisbury, and Richard Culliton.