Portland Center Stage: Winter Song (created with Brandon Woolley); The Last Five Years (Cathy); Fiddler on the Roof (Tzeitl). Other credits: Wicked, First National Tour (Elphaba Standby); Evita, Northern Stage (Eva Peron); Oliver!, 5th Avenue (Nancy), Bright Star, Arvada Center (Alice Murphy), The Light in the Piazza, Portland Playhouse (Clara), The Sound of Music, Clackamas Rep (Maria). Merideth tours internationally with her original concerts Joni Mitchell’s BLUE and Happy Days Are Here Again: The Music of Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand. She is also half of the acclaimed folk-Americana duo Siren Songs. Merideth is a performance coach and voice and guitar teacher, and she has taught masterclasses nationwide. TV credits include Portlandia and the Emmy-nominated Documentary Now! Original Cast Album: Co-op. Love to my family!

Jimmy enjoys his collaborative relationships with innovative creative outlets such as Portland Center Stage, Artists Repertory Theatre, Profile Theatre, and Milagro, to name a few. Jimmy has also enjoyed five seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and considers Ashland his second home.

Treasure is elated to return to Portland Center Stage for It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. Recent performance credits include Chicken & Biscuits (Portland Playhouse), August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean (Portland Center Stage), Barbecue (Portland Playhouse), and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, and Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Portland Center Stage). 

John is honored to be working with Chip, cast and crew on one of his favorite stories. He has previously appeared on the PCS stage in Shakespeare's Amazing Cymbeline and Twist Your Dickens: The Second City's Christmas Carol. He is a resident artist at Artists Repertory Theatre, where he has appeared in more than a dozen plays including Trevor, The Motherf#@&er With the Hat, An Octoroon, Everybody, Grand Concourse, and Jack Goes Boating. John has worked with numerous Portland theaters, most recently acting in F#@&ing A at Shaking the Tree Theatre and Gloria at Profile Theatre. He has been featured on the TV series Leverage and Portlandia and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA.

Whether devising street theater with Grotest Maru in Berlin, dancing with Kiwi sisters at The Body Festival in New Zealand, or stilt-walking through the CAFF summer season in Canada, Jamie thrives on cross-cultural collaboration through physical expression. Favorite local roles include: Halina (Indecent) with ART/Profile; Olympe DeGouges (The Revolutionists), Jack Worthing (The Importance of Being Earnest) at Artists Repertory Theatre; Amy (In the Wake), Dawn (The Secretaries) at Profile Theatre; Macbeth (Macbeth), Kristine (A Doll’s House) at Shaking the Tree Theatre; Anna (The Snowstorm) for CoHo Productions and Many Hats Collaboration. She is a 20-year ensemble member with Sojourn Theatre, co-founding artistic director of the Beirut Wedding World Theatre Project, and thrilled to have this outlet for all of the funny voices that fly around in her head.

Ashley is an actor/producer and co-owner of Desert Island Studios, an independent film studio dedicated to creating more accessibility and affordability to film resources for independent storytellers. PCS credits: Rent, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and Redwood. Ashley has worked locally with theaters including Portland Shakespeare Project, Anonymous, and Hand2Mouth. As a screenwriter, recent works include Summerfield Estates and Private Chat. She would like to thank the It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play team — Chip, Phil, Isaac, Marissa, RaChelle, and everyone else in the company, cast, and crew — for inviting her onto her very firstholiday show! Ashley is a proud member of AEA and The Producers Guild of America. IG: @ashleysongofficial @desertislandstudiospdx

Joe's plays have been produced across the country and internationally, including It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Reefer Madness, Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play, Eve & Co., Beautiful, Hollywood Babylon, and Numb. Joe attended Playwright's Horizons/New York University, founded Second Guess Theatre Company in Connecticut, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. He is currently developing new projects for the stage and screen.

Chip is a director and producer, currently in the role of associate artistic director at Portland Center Stage. They were previously the artistic associate/resident director at KCRep. Directing: Rent, August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the world premiere of Redwood (Portland Center Stage); Larry Owens’ Sondhemia (Carnegie Hall); Journeys to Justice (Portland Opera); School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, Welcome to Fear City, Sex with Strangers, A Raisin in the Sun, (KCRep); the world premiere of Becoming Martin by Kevin Willmott (The Coterie); dwb: driving while black (Lawrence Arts Center, Baruch Performing Arts Center); 4:48 Psychosis (The Buffalo Room). Chip has developed work with playwrights including Kevin Wilmott, Kara Lee Corthron, Brittany K. Allen, Catherine Trieschmann, Darren Canady, Andrew Rosendorf, Susan Kander and Roberta Gumbel, Michelle T. Johnson, and Michael Finke. They have developed work at The William Inge Theatre Festival, NYU’s New Plays for Young Audiences, La Jolla Playhouse’s DNA Series, Portland Center Stage’s JAW Festival, The Midwest Dramatists Center, KCRep’s OriginKC New Works Festival, The Living Room Theatre, and Musical Theatre Heritage. Education: NYU, Tisch School of the Arts. 

Peter is a scenographer and media artist whose work has been presented both nationally and internationally. He was a founding curator of the Incubator Arts Project in NYC, won an Obie Award for the scenic design of Untitled Mars (this title may change), and a Bessie Award for the visual design of This Was the End. Recent Portland credits include designs for Apoptosis, The Cherry Orchard, Sweat, Indecent, Fronteriza, The Weather Room, Arlington a love story, Our Ruined House. Previously with PCS, he designed the set for Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley. He holds an M.F.A. from CalArts, is a professor at Reed College, and is a member of the Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (PETE).

Portland Center Stage: August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean. PCS/ART: the ripple, the wave that carried me home, School Girls: Or, The African Mean Girls Play. Artists Repertory Theater: The Children,  Indecent, Skeleton Crew, An Octoroon, It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, We are Proud to Present. Portland Playhouse: Chicken & Biscuits, Bella, Barbecue, Pipeline, Crowns, The Wolves, How I Learned, What I Learned. Portland Opera: Beatrice, Central Park Five. Passin Art Theater: A Song for Coretta, Neat, Two Trains Running, Black Nativity, The Gospel of Loving Kindness, Smoldering Fires. Oregon Children's Theatre: Last Stop on Market Street, The Journal of Ben Uchida, In this Corner, Cassius Clay. Vanport Mosaic: Panther, Martha Bakes, Soul'd, Summer Squash, Left Hook. 

Trent spends most of their year as the mainstage master electrician and programmer at Portland Center Stage, but they are excited to be igniting the stage as lighting designer for It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. This will be Trent’s first lighting design with Portland Center Stage, however, they have designed for several local theater companies over the years. They’ve enjoyed working on such productions as Beauty and the Beast and Sleeping Beauty with Northwest Children's Theatre, The Drunken City and Complex with Theatre Vertigo, and, most recently, with Third Rail Repertory Theatre for The Music Man.

Phil is a visual and theatrical artist based in Portland and the program director of Coho Productions. He is a multidisciplinary artist who likes to express himself in as many art forms as possible. He identifies as a futurist and surrealist who focuses on the realities of the human condition, especially as it relates to his experience as an African American. As a technologist, Phil likes to find ways to use technology to imagine these future worlds, whether it is creating using virtual reality, binaural recordings, or new programming software that enhances the theatrical experience. As a theatrical artist, Phil is curious about the performer-spectator relationship and enjoys finding ways to deconstruct theater norms. Phil has a B.F.A. and M.A. from Ohio University. If you would like to learn more, comment using @philjohnsonlive or visit philjohnsondesignstheworld.com for more content.

Isaac is a directing graduate of Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film and Television and a company member of Third Rail Repertory Theatre. Favorite directing projects include: The Music Man, Arlington, The Angry Brigade, and Annapurna (Third Rail); The Bells That Still Can Ring (Portland Center Stage); Once, Fly By Night, Ordinary Days, and the world premiere of Loch Lomond (Broadway Rose); Grounded and the world premiere of db (CoHo); Mother Teresa is Dead (Portland Playhouse); Junie B. Jones and Ivy and Bean (Oregon Children’s Theatre); The Wizard of Oz (PHAME); Ordo Virtutum (In Mulieribus). Isaac was the resident director for the National Tour and Las Vegas productions of Defending the Caveman, Broadway’s longest running one-man show, and he remains an actor, educator, and filmmaker. Proud member of SDC.

Matt is a musician, sound designer, actor, and healthcare worker who is very pleased to be returning to work at PCS! Matt works in a local ER by day and plays rockstar at night. Selected credits: sound design and original compositions for The God Cluster (Fuse Theater Ensemble) and Abundancia (Matchbox Theater Company); guitarist for tick, tick … BOOM! (Portland Center Stage), Heathers: The Musical (Linfield University), Un Pajarito Canta (Portland Revels), Jesus Christ Superstar (Post5 Theater Company), and Footloose (New Century Players). Thank you to Phil for this amazing opportunity to compose, arrange, and learn. IG: @chaereb

Janine is thrilled to return for her seventh season at Portland Center Stage. She has been a stage manager and production manager for more than 20 years on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regionally, and on tour. Some of her favorites include tick, tick ... BOOM!, Rent, Frida ... A Self Portrait, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Macbeth, A Christmas Memory/Winter Song, Wild & Reckless (Portland Center Stage); Sweeney Todd (Portland Opera); The Lion King (Broadway); The Graduate (starring Morgan Fairchild), Cats, The Vagina Monologues, Jekyll & Hyde, Show Boat (National Tours); The Daily Show with Jon Stewart “Democalypse 2012 Republican National Convention.” Proud NYU graduate and AEA member.

Dana is so excited to be back at PCS for her third season. Previous work at PCS includes: tick, tick … BOOM!, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (assistant stage manager), Rent, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Redwood, In the Heights (production assistant), and The Bells That Still Can Ring (stage manager). Other credits include Much Ado About Nothing (stage management intern) at The Old Globe. Dana graduated from The Ohio State University in 2019 where she was on the stage management team for six main stage productions. Dana sends all of her love to her friends and family!

Kamilah is a playwright, dramaturg, and educator originally from North Carolina. She holds a B.F.A. in theater education from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and was an NC teaching fellow. Kamilah has spent several seasons at celebrated regional theaters across the country, including Triad Stage in Greensboro, NC, Asolo Repertory Theater in Sarasota, FL, and Two River Theater in Red Bank, NJ. Her play Nick & The Prizefighter was a semifinalist in the 2021 Bay Area Playwright’s Festival and won the 2021 Urbanite Theater Modern Works Festival.