Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low-Kramen’s career for 25 years was as the Personal Assistant to celebrity couple Olympia Dukakis (Academy Award, Moonstruck, Steel Magnolias) and Louis Zorich (Mad About You.) One of the most respected leaders in the profession, Bonnie is the 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 wrote the bestselling book about the profession, Be the Ultimate Assistant, A celebrity assistant’s secrets to working with any high-powered employer (a best-seller)and has written many articles which have been published in magazines and newsletters around the world.
Bonnie has designed and is teaching weekend intensive workshops for Personal and Executive Assistants in New York City and major cities in the U.S. and around the world.
A member of the National Speaker’s Association, Bonnie is now traveling the world as a speaker and trainer. “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.”
Bonnie is a passionate spokesperson on issues concerning all professional assistants and enjoys clearing up the myths to set the record straight. As a result, she has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, USA Today, NY Post, and Vanity Fair, and interviewed on Entertainment Tonight and Good Day New York among others. She is a popular guest speaker at conferences in the U.S. and Canada.
Bonnie worked to create NYCA in 1996 with seven fellow celebrity assistants. It is the only organization of its kind on the East Coast. The National Arts Club in NYC hosted a star-studded “Be the Ultimate Assistant” book party for 250 people in 2008. In 2003, she was honored by her peers for career achievement at a ceremony in Beverly Hills.
Bonnie’s work with Olympia Dukakis 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. The rest is history.
Bonnie lives in NJ with her high school sweetheart Robert Sanders and son Adam Kramen.
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