Actor and director Michal Hába (1986) undertook internships at Berlin’s Volksbühne Theater (with Frank Castorf) and Maxim Gorki Theater (with Sebastian Baumgarten), which significantly shaped his directorial language. Artistically, he follows the legacy of the playwright Bertolt Brecht, but his creative style is inspired by distinct German theatre-makers such as Frank Castorf, René Pollesch, Christoph Marthaler, Herbert Fritsch, and especially Christoph Schlingensief. His idiosyncratic productions stand out particularly for their dramaturgical consistency and their openly exposed leftist attitudes. In general, he focuses on contemporary political-critical theatre and tries to respond to current social developments, among other things through his work in the independent theatre group Lachende Bestien, of which he is the artistic director. 
From 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 Ottokar’s Fortune and End (2019) or Heroes of Capitalist Labour (2020), as well as productions created with the Lachende Bestien ensemble, such as his interpretation of Sikora’s Palace by the Loire (2019) or his peculiar, already his third, adaptation of Kleist’s novel 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.