Orange Is the New Black is an American comedy-drama series,created by Jenji Kohan, which is based on "Orange Is the New Black" by Piper Kerman, a memoir about her own experiences in prison. Orange Is the New Black stars Taylor Schilling as Piper Chapman, a woman in her thirties who is sentenced to 15 months in prison after she is convicted of a decade old crime of transporting money for her drug dealing girlfriend (Laura Prepon). The series also stars Laura Prepon as Alex Vause, a drug dealer and Piper's former lover; Michael J. Harney as prison counselor Sam Healy; Michelle Hurst as Miss Claudette, a fellow inmate; Kate Mulgrew as the inmate cook "Red," and Jason Biggs as Piper's fiancé Larry Bloom.
