Sammy Van den Heuvel studied architecture and scenography in Antwerp. After his studies he assisted Annette Kurz at the Thalia Theater Hamburg and Marina Abramović at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen. Since 2015 he has been creating his own scenographies for theater, dance and music theater, a.o. at the Luzerner Theater, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Theater Freiburg and the Center for Contemporary Opera New York.

Go north and see what those strangers do was his first collaboration with Panama Pictures. The spaces created by Sammy Van den Heuvel present the performers with inspiring physical challenges and help shape the movement language of the performances. The spaces created by Sammy Van den Heuvel confront the performers with inspiring physical challenges and thus help shape the movement language of the performances.