Kila holds an MFA from the graduate acting program at Columbia University's School of the Arts. He made his Off-Broadway debut in Sir Peter Hall's production of As You Like It at the Brooklyn Academy of Music starring Rebecca Hall and Dan Stevens. He was chosen by Liv Ullmann to understudy three roles in A Streetcar Named Desire starring Cate Blanchett and Joel Edgerton at BAM. Notable television credits include recurring roles on Hawaii Five-0 (2010) opposite Scott Caan and Daniel Dae Kim; and Grey's Anatomy (2005) directed by Debbie Allen. Most recently Kila worked with director Alik Sakharov on the Sci-Fi series Counterpart (2017) starring J.K. Simmons for the STARZ network.