Orange Is the New Black season 4

The fourth season of the American comedy-drama television series Orange Is the New Black premiered on Netflix on June 17, 2016, at 12:00 am PST in multiple countries. It consists of thirteen episodes, each between 54–60 minutes, with a 77-minute finale. The series is based on Piper Kerman's memoir, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (2010), about her experiences at FCI Danbury, a minimum-security federal prison. The series is created and adapted for television by Jenji Kohan.

The season received critical acclaim, again winning the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series for Uzo Aduba, and numerous other awards.

Main cast
• Taylor Schilling as Piper Chapman, inmate

• Natasha Lyonne as Nicky Nichols, inmate

• Uzo Aduba as Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren, inmate

• Danielle Brooks as Tasha "Taystee" Jefferson, inmate

• Jackie Cruz as Marisol "Flaca" Gonzales, inmate

• Lea DeLaria as Carrie "Big Boo" Black, inmate

• Michael Harney as Sam Healy, correctional officer

• Selenis Leyva as Gloria Mendoza, inmate

• Taryn Manning as Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett, inmate

• Adrienne C. Moore as Cindy "Black Cindy" Hayes, inmate

• Dascha Polanco as Dayanara "Daya" Diaz, inmate

• Nick Sandow as Joe Caputo, Director of Human Activities, later Warden

• Yael Stone as Lorna Morello, inmate

• Samira Wiley as Poussey Washington, inmate

• Kate Mulgrew as Galina "Red" Reznikov, inmate

• Laura Prepon as Alex Vause, inmate

• Elizabeth Rodriguez as Aleida Diaz, inmate

Inmates
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 * Jessica Pimentel as Maria Ruiz
 * Laverne Cox as Sophia Burset
 * Annie Golden as Norma Romano
 * Laura Gómez as Blanca Flores
 * Diane Guerrero as Maritza Ramos
 * Vicky Jeudy as Janae Watson
 * Julie Lake as Angie Rice
 * Emma Myles as Leanne Taylor
 * Abigail Savage as Gina Murphy
 * Constance Shulman as Erica "Yoga" Jones
 * Lori Tan Chinn as Mei Chang
 * Tamara Torres as Emily Germann
 * Lin Tucci as Anita DeMarco
 * Beth Fowler as Sister Jane Ingalls
 * Kimiko Glenn as Brook Soso
 * Dale Soules as Frieda Berlin
 * Lori Petty as Lolly Whitehill
 * Emily Althaus as Maureen Kukudio
 * Blair Brown as Judy King
 * Ruby Rose as Stella Carlin
 * Rosal Colon as Carmen "Ouija" Aziza
 * Francesca Curran as Helen "Skinhead Helen" Van Maele
 * Daniella De Jesus as Irene "Zirconia" Cabrera
 * Asia Kate Dillon as Brandy Epps
 * Shannon Esper as Alana Dwight
 * Arianda Fernandez as Michelle Carreras
 * Kelly Karbacz as Kasey Sankey
 * Miriam Morales as Ramona "Pidge" Contreras
 * Jolene Purdy as Stephanie Hapakuka
 * Amanda Stephen as Alison Abdullah

Staff

 * Catherine Curtin as Wanda Bell
 * Joel Marsh Garland as Scott O'Neill
 * Matt Peters as Joel Luschek
 * Alysia Reiner as Natalie "Fig" Figueroa
 * Brendan Burke as Wade Donaldson
 * Alan Aisenberg as Baxter "Gerber" Bayley
 * Beth Dover as Linda Ferguson / "Amelia Von Barlow"
 * Jimmy Gary Jr. as Felix Rikerson
 * James McMenamin as Charlie "Donuts" Coates
 * Mike Birbiglia as Danny Pearson
 * Nick Dillenburg as Ryder Blake
 * Evan Arthur Hall as Stratman
 * Mike Houston as Lee Dixon
 * Brad William Henke as Desi Piscatella
 * John Palladino as Josh
 * Emily Tarver as Artesian McCullough
 * Michael Torpey as Thomas "Humps" Humphrey

Others
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 * Michael Chernus as Cal Chapman
 * Tanya Wright as Crystal Burset
 * Ian Paola as Yadriel
 * John Magaro as Vince Muccio

Production
The series was renewed for a fourth season on April 15, 2015, prior to its third-season premiere. For the fourth season, Jackie Cruz and Lea DeLaria were promoted to series regulars; with Elizabeth Rodriguez also being promoted by the season's sixth episode.

Critical reception
The fourth season received critical acclaim. On Metacritic, it has a score of 86 out of 100 based on 19 reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 95% rating with an average score of 8.6 out of 10 based on 39 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads: "Orange is the New Black is back and better than ever, with a powerful fourth season full of compelling performances by the ensemble cast." James Poniewozik of The New York Times reviewed the fourth season as "Do you measure the quality of a TV season as a beginning-to-end average or by how well it ends? By the first yardstick, Season 4 is ambitious but uneven; by the latter, it's the series' best."