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“The Office” concludes its nine-season run Thursday on NBC.

By John Crook © Zap2it

When Jenna Fischer was a little girl, she loved watching the hit NBC sitcom “Cheers” with her family and fantasizing about how much fun it would be to work as a member of a TV comedy ensemble like that. As luck would have it, that dream came true for her when she landed the plum role of Pam Beesly (later Halpert) on “The Office,” the longrunning comedy that finishes its nine-year run on the Peacock network with a one-hour finale on Thursday, May 16.

On that same night, when NBC begins an hourlong special that immediately precedes the final “Office” episode, Fischer will be making her New York theater debut in a much-anticipated work by A-list playwright Neil LaBute, a career milestone any actress would covet — and she knows she never would have gotten it without the years she put in at Dunder Mifflin, the fictional Scranton, Pa., paper company where Pam plugged away and eventually found love with her colleague and soul mate, Jim Halpert (John Krasinski).

“ ‘The Office’ made all my dreams come true,” the actress says from New York during a break in rehearsals for her play.

“When I moved to Los Angeles to be an actress, all I wanted to do was to be part of a group of people on a really funny show that I truly loved. And it came true. That’s a really powerful thing, to be a little girl and wish for this thing and then have it happen. I got to be on the ‘Cheers’ of my generation. John and I got to be Sam and Diane, which is what I wanted more than anything.”

Fischer’s endearing performance netted her an Emmy nomination as outstanding supporting actress in a comedy