Be The Ultimate Assistant - A celebrity assistant’s secrets to working with any high-powered employer, by Bonnie Low-Kramen

Author and Celebrity Assistant Bonnie Low-Kramen, Photo by Holly Eschrich
  Photo by Holly Eschrich
Bonnie Low-Kramen has been the Assistant to celebrity couple Olympia Dukakis (Academy Award, Moonstruck, Steel Magnolias) and Louis Zorich (Mad About You) since 1986. 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. Currently, she serves on NYCA’s Board of Directors.

Ms. Low-Kramen is a passionate spokesperson on issues concerning celebrity assistants and enjoys setting 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 also regularly teaches a class called “Become a Celebrity Assistant” for the Learning Annex in NYC and is a guest speaker at executive assistant conferences in the US and Canada.

Olympia Dukakis and Louis Zorich

Ms. Low-Kramen worked to create NYCA in 1996 with seven fellow celebrity assistants.  It is the only organization of it’s kind on the East Coast and has grown to over ninety members. In 2003, she was honored by her peers for career achievement at a ceremony in Beverly Hills.

Ms. Low-Kramen’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, Ms. Low-Kramen 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...

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