Kate Reilly wrote and directed Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down with Leung Ming-kai. She also acted in the film. Memories premiered internationally at Rotterdam and was awarded Best Screenplay by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society in 2021. Hong Kong cinemas doubled Memories' screens and played it commercially for half a year. Hong Kong audiences voted Memories one of their favourite movies, and Reilly-Leung one of their favourite directors/directing teams, in the Movie6 Awards. Reilly has acted for filmmakers including Anocha Suwichakornpong and Lee Chatametikool in films selected by Rotterdam's Tiger Awards, Busan, Tribeca, and Tokyo Film Festivals. In New York, Reilly played Maurizio Costanzo in One Against All, a recreation of the Maurizio Costanzo Show, at the Whitney Museum; starred in A History of Launching Ships for experimental theatre group Polybe + Seats; originated the lead in American Soldiers at Theater for the New City; and played Dr. Balthazar in a new translation of Vaclav Havel's The Increased Difficulty of Concentration at The Ohio Theatre. Reilly writes and performs sketch comedy and improvises live comedy.
