The series is based on Piper Kerman's memoir, "Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison" (2010), detailing her experiences at FCI Danbury, a minimum-security federal prison.

Got home; 45 minutes later, I got the phone call to go and be a part of Orange is the New Black. 5:43 p.m., I’ll never forget it." Kanya Iwana. Uzo Aduba photographed exclusively for EW.