Roderic Campbell Penfield (December 20, 1864 – April 2, 1921) was an American publisher, printer, editor, journalist, theatre critic, businessman, playwright, and lyricist.
The author of several plays, including both books and lyrics for multiple musicals, two of his stage works were mounted on Broadway: Lady Teazle (1904) and The White Hen (1907).
Also a businessman with media interests, he was for a time the co-owner of the Asbury Park Press with his brother, Norman W. Penfield.
With that press he founded and served as both publisher and managing editor for the publications The Opera Magazine and The Greenwich Village Spectator.
In the last years of his life he worked as a publisher in Japan for the Trans-Pacific Magazine and the World's Salesman; the latter of which he co-founded with his son shortly before his death.
[10] Penfield was active as both a journalist and editor at a variety of publications in New York City beginning in the 1890s, including the New-York Tribune and The Sun.