Creighton Irons was
born and raised in beautiful Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he
attended the University of North Carolina as a Morehead Scholar. In
2008, he earned an MFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts'
Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program. His original musicals have enjoyed
productions in North Carolina (Ran Together, Soul Notes, aliveinsignificance), Boston, and Connecticut, as well as staged readings in NYC (Work Song, written with Katya Stanislavskaya, Factory Girls, written with collaborator Sean Mahoney). In addition, his songs have been performed in cabarets across the east coast (Barrington Stages, selected by William Finn, Goodspeed Musicals) and New York City (ArsNova, Birdland Jazz, Joe's Pub, The Canal Room, Lincoln Center, and others).
Creighton spent the fall of 2008 as an Artist in Residence at Lesley University. In January of 2009, he and Mahoney took Factory Girls to Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, CT as a part of their "Festival of New Artists," and in October of that year were fortunate to be selected as one of eight new musicals to premier at the National Alliance for Musical Theater's Festival of New Musicals.
Irons also works as a professional musical director (Dreamland, Working, Kudzu, The People v. Mona, Diamond Studs) and teaching artist, leading songwriting and other performing arts workshops with A.C.T., Bank Street, City Center's Encores! Program, Hartford Stage, and others. Projects in the works include "The Moon and The Sea," a musical myth (Wendy Macdonald, producer), and "Walden," a new musical with Doug Parker. Creighton currently splits his time between North Carolina and New York.
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