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Together with Lucas Vandervost, Luk Perceval, Warre Borgmans, and Johan Van Assche, he founded "Het Gezelschap Van De Witte Kraai" in 1980, a breath of fresh air in the theater landscape of the time. The group introduced 'thinking speaking' as a reaction to the 'shouting and pacing' in the city theaters.

From 1989 to 2006, he was a guest lecturer in drama at, among others, the Herman Teirlinck Institute (formerly the Antwerp Conservatory), the Arnhem Drama School, Rits Brussels, the Amsterdam Drama School, the Lemmens Institute Leuven, the Ghent Conservatory, and P.a.r.t.s. Brussels.

As a director at Zuidelijk Toneel Globe and Toneelgroep Amsterdam, among others, he was a key representative of the so-called 'Flemish Wave', a renewal movement that 'flooded' Dutch stages in the 1980s.

Sam Bogaerts was a Belgian director, actor, author, and teacher of dramatic arts.

In 1987, he won the first Grand Theatre Festival Prize with Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf according to him a 'masterfully bad piece), starring Viviane De Muynck, Kees Hulst, Tania Van der Sanden, and Bas Paijmans. Bogaerts scrapped virtually the entire text of the final part and replaced it with Flemish schlagers from the early sixties, the era in which Who's Afraid originated. De Muynck, in particular, who won the Theo d'Or for this role, came alive to the sentimental songs, accompanied by drums and guitar. She wore a shimmering dress, and her wig was that of Elisabeth Taylor, who starred with Richard Burton in the ultimate film adaptation in 1966.

In 1979, together with Lucas Vandervost, he won the Cameretten cabaret competition with the program "Dabaret Salu, Ik Ben Soms Van Gisteren". It was the first time a Belgian won first prize.

He was well into his twenties when he chose the theater. Before he began studying recitation and drama at the conservatories of Antwerp and Brussels, he had already worked as a market vendor, dockside freight forwarder, bookkeeper, head of transport, and truck driver.

Bogaerts studied elocution at the Antwerp Conservatory and drama at the Brussels Conservatory.

From October 2005, he was a drama teacher at the Ghent Conservatory, and successively head of department and program. At his request, the drama program was placed under the KASK (Royal Academy of Fine Arts) department of Ghent University of Applied Sciences in October 2009. As of October 1, 2013, he was emeritus.

From 1996 to 2001, Bogaerts was artistic director of theater Malpertuis, where he was dismissed 'for economic reasons' barely a week after a new subsidy period had begun, during which the artistic leadership held ultimate responsibility for the first time.