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Step 1
Get familiar with local and national theaters. Even if you've never been there, send a letter of introduction about yourself and your career. They may throw it away, but hey, then again, they might not. Go into all the local theaters in person and make sure they know your face and connect you with a good solid base and positive personality.
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Step 2
Send your resume and head shot everywhere. Concentrate especially on theaters which are doing a show you've already been in; directors are more likely to cast someone who is reprising the role. But regardless, send your resume to every theater you can think of; you never know what theater in Kentucky or Oklahoma is suddenly going to have an urgent, high-paying need for you.
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Step 3
Go to as many general auditions as you can think of. General auditions, where hundreds of people come out to audition for a mass of theater companies all at once, can be very worthwhile and very rewarding. And yes, the title of the piece says that there's no auditioning involved, but technically you're not auditioning for a play, you're auditioning for the casting director. Hey, a chance to do one monologue for 50 people and get cast 200 times? That's not an audition, that's an opportunity.
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Step 4
Do everything you can possibly do. Car commercials. Work as an extra. Community theater. You never know where someone's going to see you and turn you into the next big thing.
