The "Certified Organic" plays on both performance dates are:

•      "About What Matters" by Jennie Webb - A play about priorities, boundaries, the value of certification and letting life get to you when weighing what’s real. Jennie is the author of numerous plays presented throughout the U.S. and internationally; locally she co-founded the LA Female Playwrights Initiative (LA FPI) and is a member of The Playwrights Union and Rogue Machine Theatre, where her "Yard Sale Signs" premiered last year.

 •      "A Day in Eden" by Barbara Lindsay - A lush garden is the setting for a lifetime of love, loss and recognition, all over in the blink of an eye. Barbara's first full-length play was the award-winning "Free" which premiered in London in 1991; since then, her plays and monologues have had over 200 national and international productions. Her short play "Here to Serve You" won the 2008 Goshen Peace Play Prize. She is currently living in Seattle, WA.

 •      "Between Siddhartha and the Angel" by Mary F. Unser - In February, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia falls to earth and in Hemphill, Texas, Rita remembers how to fly. Mary's plays have been seen at venues including Ensemble Studio Theatre (both NY & LA), The Perishable Theatre, The Blank, Ka-HOOTZ, Carnegie Mellon University, Point of Contention, Snowdance Comedy Festival, Lower East Side Int’l LGBT Festival and the NY Int’l Fringe. 

•      "Black Tickets" by Julie Retzlaff - A retired doctor, confronted by the shortcuts he took in life, sees what lies ahead and considers the price of admission. Julie is also a director and producer who works primarily on new works, in NY (Ensemble Studio Theatre and Arclight Theatre Company) and California (Pacific Repertory Theatre and Seedlings). She is the author of published poetry and prose.

•      "Beeing There" by Isabella Russell-Ides - A poetical eco-disaster play in which a water girl answers apocalyptic weather with art and a bee lady calls 911 when 10,000 bees are raptured. Isabella is a multi-award-winning playwright based in Dallas, TX; her plays including "The Early Education of Conrad Eppler," "Coco & Gigi," "Leonard's Car" and "¡CENOTE! " have hit stages in NY and LA, and lots of places in between. She is also a published poet.

 •      "The Old Salt" by Katherine James - A comedy of tearful goodbyes and colorful introductions that proves true love takes many forms, in or out of uniform. Also a director, actor and artistic director of Free Association Theatre, Katherine is a frequent Seedlings collaborator; her  plays were most recently presented as part of The Road Theatre Company's reading series and at the Dirty Laundry Festival in Prescott, Arizona.

 •      "Around the Barn" by Matt Van Winkle - An offbeat look at the inner-workings of a particular relationship that sings a universal song of hopes, dreams and expectations. Matt grew up in Meadville, PA. He plays music with his band and has written several plays. His most recent short work was performed during a Theatre Mab Town Hall.

 •      "Pop-Pop Goes Bowling" by Ann-Giselle Spiegler - A play inspired by and set in the Hollywood Bowl about another great venue for live performance: parenthood. An award-winning director for theater, film and music video based in Los Angeles, Ann-Giselle is also an emerging playwright with works performed in LA, NY and NJ; she is currently a member of LA Writer's Center and resident playwright for the Downtown Artist Collective.

 SeedlingsFest features the work of five directors and an ensemble cast featuring familiar members of Theatricum's company, and some new faces. The "Certified Organic" directors are Jen Bloom, who developed the Performing Arts Program at the LA Natural History Museum, is co-artistic director of Santa Monica Rep and has extensive credits on the East Coast and in LA; Ella Martin, whose work as a director has been featured by PianoFight LA, California International Theatre Festival and Theatre Mab Town Hall (co-founder and artistic director); Amanda McRaven, a Fulbright scholar whose productions have received critical acclaim in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Virginia (American Shakespeare Center) and Wellington, New Zealand; Annie Saunders, who has worked as a director in London at the Charing Cross Theatre, Queen Mary University & Etcetera Theatre and at LA's Lyric Hyperion, and recently launched her own site-specific company, Wilderness; and Becca Wolff, whose past theater work includes The Public Theater, Trinity Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz and Yale Repertory Theatre, among other venues, as well as the NY Int'l Fringe Festival.