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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 magazines and newsletters around the world.

Bonnie has designed and is teaching weekend intensive workshops for Personal Assistants in New York City and major cities across the United States. “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, 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 executive assistant 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. In 2003, she was honored by her peers for career achievement at a ceremony in Beverly Hills.

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. Story continued in the book...