Charles Pratt Jr. (born January 6, 1955) 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.
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Daytime soap opera positions held
All My Children (hired by Brian Frons)
Head writer: August 27, 2008 – February 15, 2010
Co-head writer (with Lorraine Broderick): February 8 – 15, 2010
Consulting producer: August 20, 2008 – November 2009
General Hospital
Consulting producer: May 2004 – March 28, 2006
Head writer (with Robert Guza Jr.): June 13, 2002 – March 10, 2006
Script Writer: 1982–1984
Santa Barbara
Script Writer: 1985–1986
Co-head writer (with Anne Howard Bailey): December 22, 1986 - January 13, 1989
Head writer: January 16, 1989 – May 18, 1990
Sunset Beach
Created show with Robert Guza Jr. and Josh Griffith
Executive Storyline Consultant: 1997
The Young and the Restless (hired by Jill Farren Phelps)
Head writer: January 16, 2015 – December 6, 2016
Executive Producer (with Jill Farren Phelps): January 16, 2015 – July 12, 2016; (with Mal Young): 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
Executive Producer: Pilot
Consulting Producer: 2004–2006
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
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.
