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 Beowulf Alley Theatre Company, founded in 2001 and located in historic downtown Tucson in 2004, is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit theatre is committed to enriching the community and enhancing appreciation of the arts through the production of innovative, invigorating theatre and theatrical education with the highest standards for acting and production. Founded on the basis of dialogues with local theatre artists who wanted a permanent home to practice their craft, its intimate 95-seat theatre provides a facility that meets professional standards where performing artists, educators, and technicians can present their skills. We are dedicated to enhancing the arts and culture of Tucson while promoting a broader, deeper understanding of the human condition through live performances. Its home is a beautifully-renovated 95-seat storefront theatre in the heart of downtown Tucson where it kicked off its inaugural season in July 2005.
Because Beowulf Alley engages a talent and volunteer pool that calls Tucson “home” for its productions, the Theatre is committed to helping grow a new generation of Tucson talent with its programs including education for adults and youth, late night theatre to experiment with and gain experience, readers theatre for playwrights’ unpublished works, lunchtime theatre to bring art to the workday and screenings of independent film artists. And true to its roots, the Theatre maintains ongoing dialogues with the community, including Dialogues with theatergoers following performances of each of its main stage plays, at Readers’ Theatre nights, and other presentations, providing an opportunity for theatergoers to discuss the plays with the director and artists. Writers who cover the Tucson arts scene say the Theatre provides its audiences with “the best total package”—plays, performances and productions that are high in artistic and technical quality. The theater also provides performance and rehearsal space for other Tucson theater companies.
Beowulf Alley has received critical acclaim, including two Mac Awards and nine MAC nominations. The company has presented over 350 performances to Tucson audiences since 2002 and has served hundreds of theatre artists. We were nominated for the Emerging Arts Organization award by the Tucson Pima Arts Council in 2006 and 2007. In 2005 Amy Almquist received an Arizona Daily Star MAC Awards nomination for Criminal Hearts. We received six MAC Awards nominations in 2006 including Best Comedy for our production of Anton Chekhov’s Four Farces and Best Actress for Lesley Abrams’ performance in Frozen. Two MAC Awards nominations in 2009 were for Proof and Seascape. Additional awards in 2006 included Tucson Weekly’s “Best of Tucson Award” for “Best Performance by a Thespian” to Roberto Guajardo for Underneath the Lintel. In 2010’s Tucson Weekly’s Best of Tucson” awarded Beowulf Alley with “Best Budget Set Design”. 
The national publication, Dramabiz magazine, has chronicled BATC’s start-up story in a cover page article in the November/December 2005 issue. (click the cover photo to see the article). It concludes by saying, “Although still a work in progress, Beowulf Alley’s new home seems to be a comfortable fit and a fine addition to Tucson’s theatre community.
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