Bea Kerbekian Ehlers is the daughter of an Armenian mother and a German father. As a stage actress she was permanently engaged at the Landesbühne Wilhelmshaven from 1996 to 2003. She has also performed in numerous international and intercultural theater projects as an actress and project manager, including for the Theatro del Carmen Velez-Malaga, the Armono Theater Festival Yerevan, the Stanislavski Theater Yerevan, the UNESCO World Congress ITI, and the Eastern Europe Project of the Fonds Darstellende Künste. She won prizes at the Moscow International One Man Show Festival, the Vidlunnya International Mono-Drama Festival in Kiev and the Armono International Monologue Festival in Yerevan. She was also honored with the Armenian theater award Artavazd.