On Dec. 8, 2012, Sarah Wayne Callies gave a public talk on Chekhov and Zombies: A Match Made in Heaven at the Kennedy Theatre of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in Honolulu. Her talk was part of Zombiethon: Dead On a series of public events accompanying the stage production of Uncle Vanya and Zombies by Anton Chekhov and Markus Wessendorf (Kennedy Theatre, Nov. 918, 2012).