The Ultimate Challenge for This Stutterer

My improvisation partner has to miss next week's acting class, so I've been given an exercise to do instead. I almost died when the instructor told me what it is.

I have to receive three phone calls and each time carry on a conversation with whomever's calling.

That's right. I will have to answer the telephone three times in front of an audience.

Now that, I believe, counts as facing one's fear.