Biography
Allen Estrin is a screenwriter and producer who co-founded PragerU with Dennis Prager and is executive producer of The Dennis Prager Show. PragerU’s own biography of him gives both roles.
Entertainment Career
PragerU’s biography credits Estrin with writing multiple episodes of The Practice, Boston Public and Touched by an Angel. He wrote The Hollywood Professionals, Volume 6: Capra, Cukor and Brown for AS Barnes, directed the documentary Israel in a Time of Terror, and published a novel, Heaven’s Witness, in 2004, which The Weekly Standard named one of the year’s best mysteries. He has taught screenwriting at the American Film Institute.
PragerU
PragerU is a 501(c)(3) organization operating as the Prager University Foundation, based in Sherman Oaks, California. Its IRS ruling date is August 2010; that is the earliest first-party date available for the organization, and it does not corroborate the 2009 founding year this page previously asserted.
The organization describes its mission as promoting “American values through the creative use of digital media, technology and edu-tainment”, and its output as five-minute videos, documentaries, children’s programming and streaming content. Its own claims about reach — over 13 billion lifetime views and 5.5 million daily video views as stated in September 2026 — are self-reported and are recorded here as such.
Radio
Estrin is executive producer of The Dennis Prager Show, per PragerU’s biography.
Digital Political Impact
- Co-founded an organization whose output consists of short-form video distributed on platforms rather than through broadcast or publishing
- Brought television production practice, honed across a career writing for scripted television, to PragerU’s video content
- Serves in roles spanning a syndicated talk radio program and a video operation
What Is Not Established Here
Removed in the citation audit: his birth year; a “6+ billion views” figure stated as fact rather than as the organization’s claim; the credit for Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World; the claim that Heaven’s Witness was co-written with Joseph Telushkin; and the assertions that Estrin personally conceptualized PragerU’s format and digital-first strategy, which no cited source supports.
Sources
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PragerU. Allen Estrin — presenter biography. The organization's own biography of him. Source for his roles as Co-Founder of Prager University and Executive Producer of The Dennis Prager Show; for writing credits on multiple episodes of The Practice, Boston Public and Touched by an Angel; for the film history book The Hollywood Professionals, Volume 6: Capra, Cukor and Brown (AS Barnes); for directing the documentary Israel in a Time of Terror; for the 2004 novel Heaven's Witness, named one of the year's best mysteries by The Weekly Standard; and for his work as a screenwriting instructor at the American Film Institute.
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PragerU. About PragerU. PragerU's own statement of mission — 'to promote American values through the creative use of digital media, technology and edu-tainment' — its 501(c)(3) status, and its format of five-minute videos, documentaries, children's programming and streaming. All audience figures on the page are the organization's own claims, retrieved 2026-09-01: over 13 billion lifetime views and 5.5 million daily video views.
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Internal Revenue Service, via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer. Prager University Foundation — IRS Form 990 filings (EIN 27-1763901). Source for the organization's legal name, its Sherman Oaks, California address, and its IRS ruling date of August 2010 — the earliest first-party date available for the organization, which does not corroborate the 2009 founding year previously stated on this page.