sentences:  He also developed his interest in music and was signed to Columbia Records in 1968 to record an album, "Sleep Faster, We Need the Pillow", produced by John Hammond.From 1974–1984, as founder and artistic director of the Colonnades Theatre Lab in New York City, Lessac produced and directed over thirty productions and maintained and trained a company of eighteen actors, three playwrights, four composers, and a lighting, sound, set design/construction team.The theatre received numerous awards for its work over this period, most notably for its premiere productions of international theatre including original adaptations of the novels of Bulgakov ("Molière in Spite of Himself") and Frank O’Connor ("Guests of the Nation" later seen on public television in the US).