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, NYTB, and others). 

Creighton spent the fall of 2008 as an Artist in Residence at Lesley University, and in December 2008 traveled with collaborator Sean Mahoney to San Francisco to conduct a workshop of Factory Girls at the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.).  In January of 2009, the two 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.