His career started out as a stagehand in a traveling theatrical troupe.  
His career started out as a stagehand in a traveling theatrical troupe.  When the group disbanded he was forced to work in a flour mill, during which  time he wrote 130 plays, 21 of which still survive. Through his plays, he  introduced to the non-Greek world such characters as the braggart soldier in  his Miles Gloriosus and the sly servant in his Pseudolus. FTP, who was this  person, considered the greatest comic playwright of Rome?
His career started out as a stagehand in a traveling theatrical troupe.  
Titus Plautus