Actor and director Michal Hába (b. 1986) interned at Berlin’s Volksbühne Theater (under Frank Castorf) and Maxim Gorki Theater (under Sebastian Baumgarten), which significantly shaped his directorial language. Artistically, he follows the legacy of playwright Bertolt Brecht, but his creative style is inspired by distinct German theatre creators such as Frank Castorf, René Pollesch, Christoph Marthaler, Herbert Fritsch, and especially Christoph Schlingensief. His idiosyncratic productions stand out particularly due to their consistency and openly leftist attitudes. In general, he focuses on contemporary political-critical theatre and tries to respond to current social developments, including through his work in the independent theatre group Lachende Bestien, where he is the artistic director. 
With the 2025/26 season he is the new artistic director of the Činoherní studio Ústí nad Labem.
Hába draws themes from both contemporary and classic texts, which he deconstructs and enriches with new meanings. This is evidenced by his work at the Prague City Theatres, where he has staged Grillparzer’s King Ottocar: His Rise and Fall (2019), and Heroes of Capitalist Labour (2020), as well as productions created with the Lachende Bestien ensemble, such as his interpretation of Roman Sikora’s Chateau by the Loire (2019), and his one-of-a-kind (already his third) adaptation of von Kleist’s novel Michael Kohlhaas (2022). He returns regularly to the Flora Theatre Festival; most recently in 2024 with his distinctive interpretations of the classics Peer Gynt (Činoherní studio) and Woyzeck_A One-Dimensional Man, starring Actor of the Year Mark Kristián Hochman, to which the Oedipus Utopia production from Ústí nad Labem is a deliberate follow-up.