Arlie Honeycutt Biography

Arlie Honeycutt is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Garner, North Carolina who was named Miss North Carolina 2012. A Vocal Performance major at East Carolina University, Honeycutt received the Miss North Carolina Overall Talent award as well as a Talent Preliminary award at the Miss North Carolina 2012 competition.

Biography

Honeycutt has sung at both the Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek and Carnegie Hall, and has performed the National Anthem for the Carolina Mudcats, the ECU Pirates, and the Charlotte Bobcats. In addition to singing with the East Carolina Chamber Singers, Honeycutt is also a member of the female a cappella group the Magnolia Belles, and placed in the top four in the annual ECU Stars competition in both 2010 and 2011.

Honeycutt served as the secretary of the ECU Student chapter of the National Teachers of Singing organization in its inaugural semester, and represented the school at the 2012 State NATS competition where she placed second in her division. She has performed in numerous theatrical productions, roles including Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Luisa in The Fantasticks.

A graduate of William G. Enloe High School, Honeycutt was the first student to ever receive Wake County Phi Beta Kappa Writing awards two years in row. She has made the East Carolina University Dean's List every semester, and received a 2011 ECU Excels award. She is a member of Phi Eta Sigma and Phi Kappa Phi National Honors Societies. Honeycutt serves her school as an East Carolina University Ambassador and promoting volunteerism through her platform, the Domino Effect.

She partnered with critically acclaimed theatre company The Towne Players to create the Henry Sanchez Memorial Scholarship Fund in her hometown, raising over $12,000 to send local children to their summer theatre camp since 2007. Honeycutt also served as the Fundraising and Marketing chair for the ECU Ambassadors Special Populations Prom in 2011 and 2012, helping to provide a glamorous and exciting evening of fun for individuals who may not have had an opportunity to attend school dances due to mental or physical handicaps. Honeycutt represented Kinston-Lenoir County as a local titleholder, and now serves as the 75th Miss North Carolina. She will represent North Carolina at the 92nd Miss America Pageant this January.