Susan C Riford

Susan C. Riford was an American author, philanthropist, and entrepreneur who was also a passionate proponent of theater education for children. She wrote over fifty children's plays and books during her thirty-year tenure as foundr and head of Auburn Children's Theater in Auburn, New York. A long-time member of the New York State Council on the Arts, she was for years fascinated by the story of Opukahaia. She wrote Black Rocks and Rainbows as her final work before she died in 1997 in Maui, Hawaii.