 She married in 1946 and four years later she and her husband Max Lowy moved to California, where Bluh immediately became involved with the Pasadena Playhouse acting in various productions, including "A Streetcar Named Desire", as well as trying her hand at directing.In the 1960s, living in New Jersey, she joined The New Dramatists in New York City and assisted many Broadway directors including Jules Irving at what was then the brand new Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center (1965–1973).Before their divorce, in 1969, Max and Bonnie (as she was still known at the time) raised three sons