Becoming the Ultimate Manager with Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low-Kramen’s career for the past 25 years was as the Personal Assistant to celebrity couple Olympia Dukakis (Academy Award, Moonstruck, Steel Magnolias) and Louis Zorich (Mad About You.) She is also a co-founder and former President of New York Celebrity Assistants (NYCA), a networking and support organization for New York-based celebrity assistants. As an author, Bonnie has written many articles which have been published in newsletters around the world.

Beginning in November, 2011 Bonnie designed and is teaching “Essential Skills for the Personal Assistant,” a 25-hour course at the Bespoke Institute in York City. “The time is right for more structured training of Personal Assistants as the demand for broadly skilled excellent assistants is pressing and immediate in today’s workplace. I am very excited to be invited to teach this important class at the Bespoke Institute. It’s a great start as we look to eventually take the class to other cities and the virtual world. The options are endless.”

Bonnie’s work with Olympia Dukakis has included close involvement with the Academy Award win for Moonstruck, the 1988 presidential campaign of Michael Dukakis, travel around the world to places such as Sydney, London, Alaska and Prague and numerous awards shows and benefits.

A New Jersey native, Bonnie holds a B.A. degree from Rutgers University in English and Theatre. She worked in public relations and marketing for not-for-profit theatres in Chicago, Atlanta and Houston before returning to New Jersey where she became Public Relations Director at Olympia Dukakis’ Whole Theatre in Montclair, NJ