Ep 758: Susan Ray

Susan Ray is a writer and the president and creative director of The Nicholas Ray Foundation.

Susan Ray is a writer and the president and creative director of The Nicholas Ray Foundation.

Susan Ray is a writer and the president and creative director of The Nicholas Ray Foundation. She oversaw the restoration of her husband’s singular last film, “We Can’t Go Home Again”, and made a documentary, “Don’t Expect Too Much”, about how Ray’s film was made and his relationship with his students. She’s now completing a novel-memoir and launching the third film of three in the Ray Centenary Project, ACTION!, a master class with Nicholas Ray in filmmaking as a way of life. Previously she introduced and edited “I Was Interrupted: Nicholas Ray on Making Movies” (University of California Press, 1993) and has published a number of shorter pieces on film and pilgrimage.

Susan Ray & Adam Schartoff at Radio Free Rhinecliff in Rhinecliff, NY.