Sam began training at the ‘County School of Dance’ in Leicester. At the age of eighteen she was one of twenty young dancers chosen nationally to be part of ‘The National Youth Dance Company’ and consequently got the chance to work with the top choreographers of the day as well as touring the UK.

Sam went on to train professionally for 3 years at ‘The Northern School of Contemporary Dance’ in Leeds and on leaving joined’ The National Ballet Company’ in the production of ‘Aida’ at The National Indoor Arena in Birmingham.

Sam went on to work with various choreographers in pantomimes, summer seasons, commercials and videos.

Steven initially began training from the age of eight at the Betty Chappelle School of Theatre Dance in Penistone, Sheffield, and later at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds.
In 1990 he graduated and made his West End debut in Mathew Bourne’s Children of Eden at the Prince Edward theatre. This was to be the first of many West End shows and he returned to this theatre in 1996 playing the lead role of Arnaud Du Till in Cameron Mackintosh’s new musical, Martin Guerre.

Amongst many other starring roles, Steven’s theatre credits include an Olivier nomination for his portrayal of Keith Nicholson in Spend Spend Spend (Original Cast), Chris in Miss Saigon (National Tour), Narrator in Blood Brothers (West End), Curly in Oklahoma(Kilworth Open Air theatre), Sebastian in The Thing About Men, (West End), Danny Zuko in Grease (National Tour), Alex in Desperately Seeking Susan (West End), Munkustrap in Cats (West End), Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun, (National Tour), Pip in Great Expectations (National Tour),  Arthur in Come Dancing (West End) Simon in Friends Like Us (West End), Lead in War Cabaret, (West End), Kiss Me Kate (National Tour), Moby Dick (West End), Adam Pontipee in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (national tour).

Television and Film Credits include: Gregg Blake in London’s Burning (LWT), Captain Barker in The New adventures of Robin Hood (Warner Bros), Brett Grey in Doctors (BBC), Scott Bridges in Holby City (BBC), and Tonio in Alive and Kicking (Film Four).

In the year 2000 Steven was invited to work with Alain Boublil, the librettist of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon. Along with French singer, Marie Zamora, Steven performed in concert and on French television, a variety of musical duets including the lead role of the phantom in The Phantom of the Opera.

Steven has worked with nearly every major choreographer including Arlene Philips, Bob Avian, Mathew Bourne, Gillian Lynne, Anthony Van Laast, Stephen Mear, Craig Revel Horwood, Karen Bruce, Richard Alston, Kim Gavin, Adrian Allsopp as well as appearing in 3 Royal Variety Performances.

Throughout his career, Steven has worked extensively in advertising and corporate entertainment and his clients include Philishave, Levis, Mitsubishi, Unilever, Fiat, Dianeze, Bird’s Eye, Cannon, St Ivel, TSB, Tie rack and GHD.

During his time in London’s Burning, Steven worked with Simon Cowell and released the single ‘Wind Beneath My Wings’ which sold over 400,000 copies and debuted at no 3 in the UK charts, and his self-titled album ‘Steven Houghton’ achieved gold status. He has also performed in numerous concerts with the BBC concert orchestra.

Steven is currently playing the part of Jeff Cullen in 'Coronation Street'. For more information please vist www.stevenhoughton.com

Brogan trained at Mountview Theatre School on the Ralph Richardson Acting Scholarship and the Mountview Singing Scholarship.

Upon leaving drama school Brogan's first role was ‘Anita’ in the UK tour of "West Side Story" directed by Irina Brown. Brogan went on to play the roles of ‘Flo Manero’ in Saturday Night Fever (UK tour) directed by Arlene Philips, ‘Madame Thernardier’ in Les Miserables (West End), understudy and played ‘Fantine’ in Les Miserables (UK Tour), understudied and played ‘Nancy’ in ‘Oliver’ (West End, UK and Toronto tour) directed by Sam Mendes and choreographed by Matthew Bourne and ‘Sheila’ in the European tour of "Hair".

TV appearances include ‘The Bill’ (ITV) and ‘What Would You Do?’ (BBC) Recordings include: ‘Oliver’, ‘West Side Story’, ‘Lord Of The Rings’, ‘Marguerite’ and ‘Nine’.

Brogan is an established vocal performer and has toured most of the country performing various concerts including Les Miserables Odyssey- Arena Belfast, The QE2, The Queens Golden Jubilee and ‘NINE’ - Royal Festival Hall.

As well as her performing career, Brogan is an experienced drama and singing teacher and has taught for many other performing arts schools.

Helen completed three years training at Brian Rogers Performers Dance college in Essex.

On leaving,  Helen landed her first pop video for Simon Cowell with Zig and Zag.

For the next fifteen years she continued to work constantly, dancing in trade and fashion shows for all the top brands, including Top Shop, Disney, Levi's, Clarks, Reebok, Wella, Ski and Boat Show.
Throughout her career she has performed  with an array of top artists including Ricky Martin, Robbie Williams, Cher, Kylie, Take That, Michael Buble, Steps, S-Club, and Billie Piper.

Helen has performed on a wide variety of Television shows including numerous appearances on Top Of The Pops, SM-TV/CD-UK ,The Brit Awards, Pop Idol, and The Royal Variety Performance.