Career
She is counted as the first professional female actor in the Ottoman Empire and thereby the Middle East. In the 1850s, the modern theatre was founded in the Ottoman Empire by an Armenian theatre company, and Papazian was reportedly the first female actor to perform in the Hekimian theatre company in 1857. She was engaged at the Arevelian Tatron (Oriental Theater) and she also toured with the company, such as to Izmir in 1867.
Arousyak Papazian became the first leading lady and female star of the Ottoman theatre and received considerable praise.