Although Butterflies are Free is Victor’s first appearance before Manila Theater Guild audiences, he is no newcomer to the theater. He has worked in just about every phase of the theater, both at De La Salle College in Manila and St. Louis University in Baguio. Among the plays Victor has either produced or directed at both schools are the local adaptation of Brother Orchid and the clerical comedy Shepherds on the Shelf. He has also played leading roles in Out of the Darkness, Do You Know the Milky Way, and Afraid of the Dark. In 1967, Victor was Captain and Best Debater of the La Salle College Champion Debating Team, and in 1969 held the same positions on the University of Santo Tomas Champion Debating Team. He has studied at the University of Wisconsin under a grant from the Ford Foundation, and at the Asian Institute of Management here in the Philippines. Although Victor's name appears only as a member of the cast of Butterflies are Free, he has lent a hand in nearly every aspect of this production—a truly gifted and most welcome addition to the Manila Theater Guild.
Victor has a Ph.D. in Oriental Philosophy and is Director of Institutional Planning at La Salle College in Manila. He says he is “unmarried, unattached, uncommitted, and drifting”—towards what he didn’t say.

VICTOR M. ORDONEZ, currently Senior Ministerial Adviser to the Minister of Trade, Republic of the Philippines, is on leave from De La Salle University, where he has served as Dean of the Graduate School of Business and Education and Director of the Educational Management Center, and from the Bancom Group of Companies, where he was vice-president and managing director of the Bancom Institute of Development Technology. He holds seven academic degrees, including a Ph.D., from Philippine colleges and universities, and has pursued postdoctoral studies in the United States. He has written extensively on project management, rural development, international education, and the role of private enterprise in developing countries.

...from 1978, program of Summer Repertory Theater, California

Victor Ordonez, Stage Manager, teaches at the University of California at Los Angeles, and as acted in several feature films and television shows. Victor, hails from Manila, where he has acted and directed for Repertory Philippines, the Manila Theater Guild, and De La Salle University, where he was on the faculty. In the fall, he will serve as assitant director on a forthcoming Bette Davis film.

This is Victor M.. Ordonez’s first novel. Originally conceived as a screenplay many years earlier, it finally emerged as a novel during a hiatus in his busy professional life that permitted him the time and the focus to complete it. He had spent the intervening years working as a UNESCO Director in Paris and in Bangkok, as Undersecretary of Education in the Philippines, responsible for the Presidential Commission on Culture and the Arts, and on the faculties of De La Salle University, UCLA, and the University of Hawaii—sustaining throughout an active interest and involvement in history and the performing arts, He currently resides in Hawaii.