A North Texas high school senior is suing her school district for not allowing her to portray a male character in a campus theater role that she earned.
Ana Mota, 17, alleges that Grand Prairie school administrators discriminated against her on the basis of sex when they notified theater faculty a week into rehearsals for “Little Shop of Horrors” that the teenager could not play the lead character, who is male.
The production was canceled after Mota declined her reassignment to another role that she would have had to share with another student and for which she had not auditioned…