Welcome to Cerritos, California—where the tsinelas stack high, the gossip flows hotter than the adobo, and the de Dios family is praying their way through the chaos. God Will Do The Rest follows three generations of a Filipino American family wrestling with faith, identity, generational trauma—and each other—as they gather for a nine-day prayer ritual in honor of the Santo Niño.
Full-Length / 4W, 3M
REVIEWS
"Essential Arts Critic's Pick...#1 BEST BET"
Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times
"FANTASTIC...extraordinarily compelling and outright hilarious...
A benchmark in Asian American theatre history as one of the best...one of the best Asian American plays I have ever seen."
Edward Hong, The Nerds of Color
"The best, most definitive play on contemporary Filipino American immigrant life and experience in the U.S. The play delivers...emotional, nuanced and poignant."
Ruben V. Nepales, Golden Globe Awards
"ACID HILARITY...[a] fresh new comedy
-drama...one playwright to watch."
Eric Gordon, People's World
"STAGE RAW TOP 10...Pilapil adeptly captures the hilarious (yet painful) shade thrown by Filipinos...the de Dios family flourishes
with distinct voices amidst large Filipino family chaos."
Amanda L. Andrei, Stage Raw
"HILARIOUS...prove[s] that a warm, loving, conflicted, crazy family happens
in every culture."
Elaine Mura, Splash Magazines
"Well-written...condensed so beautifully and flawlessly...If it were a streaming show, I would binge-watch it all day."
—Laura Foti Cohn, Larchmont Buzz
"This God works—in mysterious and mirthful ways."
Ed Rampell, Hollywood Progressive
HISTORY
Artists at Play & Latino Theater Company
World Premiere
Artists at Play
Workshops
Geffen Playhouse
Staged Reading
Workshop
AKNOWLEDGMENTS
Progie Theatre Awards
The Helen Keller Award Winner
The Odets Award nominee
BroadwayWorld Los Angeles Award
Best Play nominee
Best New Play nominee
The New Harmony Project
Finalist
Amphibian Stage’s SparkFest
Finalist
Dramatists Guild Foundation
National Playwriting Fellowship Semi-Finalist
American Blues Theater
Blue Ink Award Semi-Finalist
Seven Devils Playwrights Conference
Semi-Finalist
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Photos by M Palma Photography. Artists at Play, 2024.