About me
Flo Low is founder and Executive Director of BAMAH (Hebrew for "platform" or "stage"), a cultural dialogue and exchange organization that leverages art and artists from Israel to inspire and connect people of all identities and backgrounds. BAMAH's signature initiative, the Visiting Artists Program, brings leading artists from Israel on semester-long residencies. Now primarily serving historically Black colleges and universities, the program was previously hosted by the Israel Institute, where Flo served as Associate Director, Arts Programs She was formerly Associate General Manager of the La Jolla Playhouse, a Tony Award-winning professional non-profit theatre. As an independent producer, Flo conceived and produced “Four Minutes From the Frontlines,” a series of animated documentary shorts amplifying the stories of first responders on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis, as well as a reading tour of COME MY BELOVED, a new play by Emil Weinstein about the shared history and future of Black and Jewish communities in the United States.
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A graduate of the MFA program in Theater Management at the Yale School of Drama, Flo served as the Associate Managing Director of the Yale School of Drama, where she was responsible for 15 productions as well as the international presenting series and special events at Yale Repertory Theatre. She also served as Company Manager of Yale Repertory Theatre and as Managing Director of the Yale Summer Cabaret for a record-breaking 2015 season. In Israel, Flo worked in the Director General’s office of the Education Department of the Jewish Agency; managed strategic projects in the Former Soviet Union Department of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), and serves as a Captain (res.) in the Israel Defense Forces. She completed her service after graduating magna cum laude from Barnard College and the Jewish Theological Seminary. Flo believes passionately in the power of the arts to move hearts and change minds, and is dedicated to arts initiatives that advance equity, diversity and inclusion.
