All the world’s a stage for new acting students

This week marks the launch of Griffith University’s new Bachelor of Acting, and the first intake of students can’t wait to get started.
Peter Irankunda said he was “head over heels” about being accepted into the course.
“To think that I get to spend the next three years studying acting gets me excited,” he said.
“I love telling stories and the whole idea of disappearing into a different role and a different world.”
The aspiring actor has a remarkable story of his own.
After his parents fled war-torn Rwanda and Burundi, Peter was born in a refugee camp in Tanzania, and spent several years in Malawi before making it to Australia at the age of nine.
“Because of the civil war, we were always on the move when I was a kid,” he said.
“There was Mum and Dad and seven of us kids and we eventually made it to Australia as refugees.
“It was tough at first. I only

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