Director, playwright, actor, and teacher Miroslav Krobot (b. 1951) is one of the most acclaimed creators in Czech theatre and has also made a name for himself in the film industry. After graduating from the directing programme at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts, he held several positions before settling at the National Theatre in 1990 as its resident director. There he earned the 2003 Alfréd Radok Award for Production of the Year – the first of a series of theatre awards. In 1996, he brought his entire graduating class from the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague to Prague’s Dejvické divadlo, which, under his artistic direction (1996–2014), established itself as a venue popular with audiences and acclaimed by critics. Among his most significant productions there were Oblomov, Three Sisters, Hamlet, and The Man Without a Past.

In 2001, director Petr Zelenka cast Miroslav Krobot in the role of Priest in the Dejvické divadlo production of Bukowski’s Tales of Ordinary Madness, which earned the then 50-year-old the Alfred Radok Award in the Talent of the Year category. He also received the 2005 Czech Lion for the same role in the film adaptation. Thanks to his film and TV appearances, he has become widely familiar to audiences, and many of his characters’ lines have entered popular culture. In 2014, he made his successful debut as a film director, making a series of cult films set here in Moravia. In addition to his regular collaboration with the Moravian Theatre in Olomouc, Krobot is also active in the S–23 theatre group.