
BRANDEN SMITH
Producer / Director / Creator
Inventing Van Gogh
by Steven Dietz

Winner of 2 Colorado Theatre Guild "Henry" Awards
the highest awards for professional theatre in Colorado
WINNER: Best Actor in a play
Kent-Jameson Ehrman as Vincent van Gogh
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WINNER: Best Supporting Actor in a play
Felix Mayes as Paul Gauguin & Rene Bouchard
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Nominee: Best Actor in a play
Joey Folsom as Patrick Stone
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Nominee: Best Scenic Design
Tania Barrenechea​
Director: Branden Smith
Scenic Design: Tania Barrenechea
Lighting Design: Rachel Fields
Sound Design: Sam Morin
Costume Design: Joey Folsom
Featuring: Kent-Jameson Ehrman, Joey Folsom, Felix Mayes, Brendan O'Hara, Shannon Foley​
Performed March 2024 at The Breckenridge Backstage Theatre​​​​​​



Photos @CurtisDevore
A haunting and hallucinatory drama about the making of art, INVENTING VAN GOGH is the story of the final van Gogh self-portrait, painted just before the artist’s death, which has never been seen…until now. Patrick Stone, a contemporary painter, is hired to forge this final masterpiece—and finds himself squaring off, across the years, with van Gogh himself. The result is a compelling mystery about the obsession to create and the fine line that separates truth from myth. https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=3212