Resumo. This text proposes an account of the creative process De Lagarta a Borboleta with people with disabilities in the (APAE) Association of Parents and Friends of the Exceptional in Ouro Preto -MG. Thus, the article aims to contribute to the field of studies about the teaching and practice of Contemporay Theater in contexts of Special Education; in addition to focusing on the collaborative creation experience lived in theater practices developed by a group of interns from the Bachelor's degree in Performing Arts -UFOP / MG. Finally, it seeks to understand theater as a language and a path for the construction of knowledge linked to other knowledge, in an interdisciplinary context.