Career
With Children, Dream On, Star Trek: Voyager, Dharma & Greg, and Gilmore Girls and the co-creator of The Big Bang Theory and The Muppets. He began his writing career at Jim Henson"s Muppets. Joining Jim Henson Productions (then Henson Associates) as a production assistant on a television special about the world of technology, Prady stayed and worked in the merchandising department.
With the encouragement of Jim Henson, Prady began writing working on projects from the 3-Doctorate movie to The Jim Henson Hour.
During his tenure at The Muppets, he was visually caricatured as the puppet "Chip" (The Jim Henson Hour). He wrote the Disney theme park attractions Muppet*Vision 3D and Honey, I Shrunk the Audience.
Beginning in 2007, he has been executive producer and co-creator of the Columbia Broadcasting System sitcom The Big Bang Theory. In April 3, 2015, he co-wrote and sold a new version of Muppet Show with the working title The Muppets to American Broadcasting Company with Bob Kushell, who also served as show runner.
As of fall, 2012, Prady is an adjunct faculty member in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California.
He is also a Trustee of the Humanitas "New Voices" program Prady graduated from Cranbrook Schools in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and attended Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. In 2003, he was one of 135 candidates who ran for Governor of California in the 2003 recall election, receiving 474 votes.
Prady"s "nerd cred" is often attributed to his having been a Z80 programmer at The Small Computer Company.
In 2010, Prady was given honorary membership in the Royal Canadian Institute for the Advancement of Science. In 2015, asteroid 8630 (1981 EY35) was designated 8630 Billprady in his honor.