Born in Dallas, Texas to a Jewish family,[1] Lissauer began his acting career in 1992 by booking his very first audition which was for the Roger Corman film, The Skateboard Kid.

He decided that the band he was playing with, made up of Keith Tenenbaum and Barry Whittaker, should have a name and titled them The Glass Plastiks.

Whittaker left and Dimitrios Farougias took over on bass and Chris Null became the lead guitarist.

In 2012, Lissauer resurfaced with a new music project called Animal Cloud with Glass Plastiks drummer Keith Tenenbaum.

Animal Cloud is influenced by bands such as MGMT, Empire Of The Sun, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, and M83.