The importance of the socio-emotional development of students in the school has taken great relevance from the articulation between cognitive intelligence and emotional intelligence, making use of pedagogical strategies that facilitate a true integral formation. This is how this research referred to black theater as a strategy, which, from social interactions, proposes to strengthen socio-emotional skills in students of an educational institution of a district nature, with the aim of understanding their context needs and providing meaningful way to resolve conflicts that arise in this community.