sentences: "The Colonnades" received Drama Desk and new Drama Forum awards, and was an official Ford Foundation “challenge grant” theatre; an annual recipient of grant awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Axe-Houghton Foundation and the Xerox Corporation.Interspersed with his work at the Colonnades, Lessac directed at the National Theatre of Yugoslavia (Dubrovnik, Zagreb); the Guthrie Theater in M.N.