 As a director his work also includes "The Will" by Marivaux at the Barbican Conservatory, London, with an ensemble from the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1987; Pinter's "The Lover" and Strindberg's "The Stronger" at the Battersea Arts Centre in 1997, and in 2008 at the MacOwan Theatre, Kensington, Pinter's "Party Time" and "Celebration" with students from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.Billington married Jeanine Bradlaugh in 1978; they have one daughter and live in London.He is a supporter of the Labour Party.