Michael Lessac is co-founder and artistic director of Global Arts Corps, an award-winning theater, television, film director, and screenwriter, project creator and director of the international theater production Truth in Translation, and artistic director of Colonnades Theater Lab, Inc. and Colonnades Theater Lab, South Africa. Prior to his work with Truth in Translation and the Global Arts Corps, Dr. Lessac directed at the National Theatre of Yugoslavia, the Guthrie Theatre in Minnesota, the Denver Theatre Centre, the Arena Stage, the Kennedy Centre in Washington D.C., and the Public Theatre in New York City. He wrote and directed the feature film House of Cards and has directed over 200 television shows and sixteen pilots. Dr. Lessac is also a singer/songwriter and has recorded an album for Columbia Records called: Sleep Faster, We Need The Pillow. He holds a doctorate in developmental psychology, and has taught both theatre and psychology at numerous universities in the USA.