The woman slashed by a deranged vagrant in Soho on Monday is a 25-year-old from Arizona who had been “living her dream” working as an off-Broadway costume designer in the Big Apple, her dad told The Post.
“Moving to New York City was her dream. She’s been doing costume design since she was in middle school,” distraught dad George Berg said Tuesday of his critically injured daughter, Megan Berg.
“It’s just crazy. She’s still hanging on. She’s bubbly and loves what she’s doing. She’s full of life.
“We’re hanging on,” he added, his voice cracking. “It’s tough.”
Muslim Brunson, an unhinged career criminal, is charged with attempted murder and assault in the random afternoon attack along a trendy street in the famous Manhattan neighborhood.
Police said Brunson, who has several prior arrests and a history of mental health treatment, walked up behind his unsuspecting victim with a broken bottle and slashed her neck — sending her to the intensive care unit at Bellevue Hospital.
Brunson’s rap sheet includes a 2022 attack on a civilian NYPD worker, who was so badly battered that she suffered a broken eye socket and cheekbone. He also had robbed and assaulted a 13-year-old boy in Brooklyn three years earlier.
George Berg said Monday’s attack on his daughter has devastated his family.
“My wife flew to New York this morning,” he said. “I haven’t heard anything other than [Megan is] still in ICU.”
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Megan has worked on musicals since 2017 back home in Arizona and was most recently an assistant costume designer on off-Broadway productions of “Fallen Angels, The Irrepressible Magic of the Tropics” and “Music City: A New Musical.”
She earned a bachelor’s degree in theatrical design from the University of Arizona in 2020 and a master’s in costume design from Purdue University last year, according to her resume.
She also has a passion for needlework and dyeing and has won several awards for her work.
“She’s a sweet girl,” neighbor Jade McLeon, a theater performer, told The Post. “She’s really friendly, lovely. We talked about theater. She’s passionate about theater.”
McLeon said Megan’s partner works on theater sound systems.