Director, playwright, actor, and teacher Miroslav Krobot (1951) is one of the most acclaimed Czech theatre makers and has also made a name for himself in the film industry. After graduating from the directing program at the JAMU Academy, he held several positions before settling at the National Theatre in 1990 as its resident director. There, among other things, he staged his own adaptation of the novel A Year in a Village, which earned him the first of a series of theatre awards – the 2003 Alfréd Radok Award for Production of the Year. In 1996, he brought his entire graduating class from the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre at DAMU to the 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 are Oblomov, Three Sisters, Hamlet, and The Man Without a Past.

In 2001, Petr Zelenka cast Miroslav Krobot in the role of the Father in the Dejvické divadlo production Tales of Common Insanity, 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 roles (including Účastníci zájezdu, Dům, Alois Nebel, Okresní přebor, Přes kosti mrtvých) and TV series roles (The End of the Dejvice Theatre, Případ pro exorcistu, Octopus), he became widely recognized by audiences, and many of his characters’ lines have become part of the popular culture.

In 2014, he made his successful debut as a film director with the original tragicomedy Díra u Hanušovic, followed by the films Kvarteto and Velká premiéra.

In addition to his regular collaboration with the Moravian Theatre in Olomouc, Miroslav Krobot is also active in the S–23 theatre group, with which he has staged the plays Zpráva pro Minervu 2 and ČERNO-VÍR.