Patrick Creadon was born and raised in Riverside, IL.  He's a 1989 graduate of the University of Notre Dame and received an MFA in Cinematography from the American Film Institute (1996).  

Creadon began his career in Chicago as one of the youngest cameramen in the history of PBS ("The 90's" documentary series, 1988-1992).  He spent over a decade working as a freelance cameraman in Los Angeles.  His directorial debut Wordplay, a feature-length documentary about The New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz, premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was sold to IFC Films after an intense bidding war during the festival.  The film went on to become the second-highest grossing documentary of 2006 and was the Best Reviewed Documentary of 2006 (according to rottentomatoes.com). 

Other films include I.O.U.S.A. (short-listed for the Academy Awards for Best Documentary of 2008), If You Build It (Independent Spirit Award winner in 2014), and Catholics vs Convicts, a 2016 installment for ESPN's award-winning documentary series "30 for 30." His film Hesburgh was a New York Times "Critics' Pick" and was listed as one of the Best Documentaries of 2019 by Entertainment Weekly. Creadon has served on multiple juries for film festivals around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. He is a founding member of the DGA Documentary Committee and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

He and his wife, producer Christine O'Malley, live in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles where they He and his wife, producer Christine O'Malley, live in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles where they are raising their three daughters.