In the wake of her divorce, Connie—the black sheep of the de Dios family—is back in her childhood home after being estranged for almost two decades. But a de Dios doesn’t forgive or forget. When the whole family—her tough-as-nails father, wayward son, bougie sister with the white doctor boyfriend, and flamboyant favorite aunt—all gather to celebrate her glamorously overbearing mother’s milestone birthday, what could possibly go wrong? With Santo Niño prayers, karaoke, and chicken adobo, God Will Do The Rest exposes the complicated ways Filipino Americans grapple with their love and duty to family.

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Creative Team

Nicholas Pilapil (Playwright) is a Filipino American playwright. His plays include The Bottoming Process (world premiere with IAMA Theatre Company, Victory Gardens Ignition Festival of New Plays) and if all that You take from this is courage, then I’ve no regrets (winner of the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival). His work has also been developed with Geffen Playhouse, Abingdon Theatre Company, Playwrights Foundation, American Stage, Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA, The Workshop Theater, and Artists at Play, among others. Nicholas is an alum of The Writers’ Room at the Geffen Playhouse, IAMA Theatre Company’s Emerging Playwrights Lab, The Vagrancy Playwrights Group, and artEquity.

Fran de Leon (Director) Multi-hyphenate artist Fran de Leon was born in Downtown Los Angeles and spent her childhood in both Manila and Hollywood. Her one-person show, Faces of America, has been performed over 500 times across the country, including for the United Nations Association in New York and Los Angeles. Recent directing credits: Everybody (5C Performing Arts); Sacrifice Zone: Los Angeles (Natural History Museum); Holy Shiitake (Whitefire Theatre); Into the Woods (Pasadena Playhouse), Valor (Writer/Director Center Theatre Group’s Digital Stage). TV credits: “The Brothers Sun,” “For All Mankind,” “For the People” and “General Hospital.” Affiliations: Co-Artistic Director, Will & Company; Core Member, Critical Mass Performance Group; Adjunct Faculty, USC School of Dramatic Arts. frandeleon.com