Barbara Dunkelman


Barbara Julie Dunkelman is a Canadian actress, community manager and internet personality. She is the Director of Social and Community Marketing at the production company Rooster Teeth, Program Director of the RTX gaming and internet convention and voice of Yang Xiao Long in the web series RWBY, Cosmos in Fairy Tail, and ORF in X-Ray and Vav. Her live-action acting credits include roles in Rooster Teeth Shorts, Immersion, Day 5 and Ten Little Roosters, as well as the horror comedy Blood Fest.

Biography

Dunkelman was born in Montreal, Quebec to a Jewish family. She and her family moved to Ottawa, Ontario, when she was 8 years old. The middle child, with one older and one younger brother, she credits her brothers with getting her interested in Red vs. Blue as well as Rooster Teeth as a whole. She signed up on Rooster Teeth's website in October 2004. In 2005 she attended and assisted at the premiere Toronto Red vs. Blue fan event, RvBTO. Starting in 2008, she helped organize it as co-host and Rooster Teeth liaison. She was a hostess for WatchMojo.com for several months in 2010.
Dunkelman graduated from Concordia University with a degree in Marketing in June 2011. In September 2011, she co-founded the triple award-winning Internet Box podcast hosted by herself, Michael Jones, Ray Narvaez, Jr., Andrew Blanchard, Mike Kroon, and Dylan "Dylon" Saramago, with Lindsay Jones and Kerry Shawcross being added to the cast later on. In December 2011, she was hired by Rooster Teeth as their first Community Manager, in charge of developing community features and the company's social media. At the time of her hiring she was the most-followed member on the Rooster Teeth community site.
Since February 2012, she appears regularly on the award-winning Rooster Teeth Podcast. In May 2013, alongside fellow employee Jack Pattillo, she was interviewed as part of Microsoft's 2013 E3 Xbox One reveal. Despite her numerous appearances on the podcast and at events, she estimates that "only 25 percent" of her job, which entails marketing and management functions within the company, takes place in the public eye.
Beginning in September 2016, Dunkelman began hosting Always Open, a lifestyle and sexual health podcast within Rooster Teeth. The podcast went on indefinite hiatus in June of 2020.

Personal life

Dunkelman is a permanent resident of the United States, residing in Austin, Texas.
As of February 2018, she is in a relationship with Trevor Collins, a member of Achievement Hunter.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2011–2014, 2016Internet BoxHerselfPodcast
2012–presentRooster Teeth PodcastHerselfPodcast
2013–presentRWBYYang Xiao LongVoice, motion capture
2014Fairy TailCosmosVoice only
2014iBladeWorker of Secrets / Sharon
2014Ten Little RoostersBarbara
2014–2015X-Ray and VavORFVoice only
2014–presentImmersionBarbara / Soldier Herself
2014–presentRed vs. BlueJensenVoice only; Writer of episode "Head Canon"
2015Death BattleYang Xiao LongVoice, episode: "Yang vs. Tifa"
2015FanarchyHerselfDocumentary
2015Lazer TeamCheerleaderCameo
2015Tom & BillAdditional VoicesVoice; one episode, uncredited
2016Crunch TimeBeatrice
2016Day 5Flip
2016RWBY ChibiYang Xiao Long
Herself
2016Camp CampNerrisVoice only
2016–2020Always OpenHerselfPodcast, Host
2017The Eleven Little RoostersAgent Moose
2017Lazer Team 2Reporter #2
2018Yang Xiao LongVideo game
2018Nomad of NowhereDoloresVoice only
2018Blood FestAshley
The Munchables MunchyVoice only