Jolene Purdy Books Role on ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK

The gang at Litchfield will continue to grow.

According to Deadline, UNDER THE DOME's Jolene Purdy has booked a recurring role on the upcoming fourth season of Netflix's hit series ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK. No details on her character have benn announced.

ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, the third season of which debuted earlier this month, is the outrageous, critically-acclaimed and award-winning series from Emmy Award-winner Jenji Kohan. A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman (Schilling) to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates.

ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK has garnered more than 20 awards including three Emmy Awards, two SAG Awards, two AFI honors, four Critic's Choice Television Awards, one NAACP Image Award, one PGA Award, two GLAAD Media Awards, and is a recipient of a Peabody Award and a Television Critics' Association (TCA) Award.

Re-watch or catch up on seasons 1 and 2 of the the global phenomenon, currently streaming on Netflix at netflix.com/OITNB.

Purdy's other credits include USA's BENCHED and Fox's GLEE.

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