Kdin Jenzen is the former voice actress for May Marigold in RWBY, Poppy from the animated adaptation of "The Grimm Child", and Shion Zaiden from the Japanese anime RWBY: Ice Queendom.
Biography
Having graduated with an Associate in Arts degree from the College of Southern Nevada in August 2005, Kdin began producing Coming Soon in March 2013 under a temporary contract.
She then moved from San José, CA to Austin, TX in October 2013, and began full-time employment at Rooster Teeth in November 2013, as a behind the scenes video editor and camera crew for Achievement Hunter, celebrating the one-year anniversary of Coming Soon in March 2014. During her time with Achievement Hunter, Kdin was responsible for editing the weekly content. While mostly working behind-the-scenes, Kdin became a reoccurring host in Let's Build and was occasionally participated in Let's Plays.
On March 19, 2016, Kdin departed from Achievement Hunter, but still worked as an employee of Rooster Teeth as an editor and community manager for "The Know". On December 2016, Kdin revealed that she is a transgender woman.
On December 17th, 2019, Kdin revealed she would be voicing the character of May Marigold from RWBY Volume 7 and onwards.[1]
On June 5th, 2022, Kdin announced that she would be leaving Rooster Teeth to work on her streaming career. However, she also stated at the time that she would still voice May if she ever appeared again in RWBY.[2]
On July 1st, 2022, Kdin revealed that the last project she worked on at Rooster Teeth before she left was acting as the Co-Voiceover director and Co-Director of casting for RWBY: Ice Queendom.[3]
On July 16th, 2022, Kdin revealed that she had moved to El Segundo, CA and became full time manager of social media and content for Square Enix America.[4]
On November 16, 2022, Kdin announced that she would no longer work on any Rooster Teeth productions, including no longer reprising the voice role for May Marigold or any other character following her mistreatment at the company.[5]
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- Rooster Teeth (inactive)
- Portfolio
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