Tea

A lonely, highly allergic employee at a Circuit-Shack store is practicing how to ask out the girl he dreams about when a hornet stings him in the throat. What began as a rehearsal turns into an unexpected emergency that puts his romantic plans in jeopardy.

Tea is a 2024 American drama short running twelve minutes, written and directed by Blake Rice. It is the first film he directed, followed by DISC in 2025, and it was produced by Gabriella Piazza and Michael Cejovic through BWR Productions, 186 Productions, Ouat Media and OB Films. Michael Gandolfini leads the cast as Nicholaus Steep, alongside Olivia Nikkanen as Tierney Bayer, Matt Van Orden as Chris Lense, Nina Tarr as Amanda Dango and Zina Louhaichy as Helene Pendergrass.