THE ZOOKEEPERS, a short play by Julia Rae Maldonado developed with with the Labyrinth Theatre’s Intensive Ensemble, has won the first inaugural L.B. Williams Playwriting Contest for BIPOC Writers along side seven other wonderful plays: Boy, by Cris Eli Blak, Kiss, by Diana Burbano, The Peace of Home, by Mildred Inez Lewis, White Gloves, by B.V. Marshall, Sundown Town, by Marcus Scott and Conversation: The Quiet Supporter, by Meredith A. Watson