“I’ve been wanting to direct since season 3, but couldn’t last year because of scheduling conflicts, so [star] David Harewood did it first. I just felt really drawn to it for a couple of seasons now, just because you know the show so well, and you get to know the character, and the world, and the tone of the show so well that you can’t help but envision certain scenes in a certain way. I want to play with that.”
She joins Harewood and The Flash's Danielle Panabaker as not just acting but also calling the shots.
The episode will be number 17 in the line-up, which won't air til sometime in the spring. But EW says Melissa has been readying herself for this.
So far, she has sat in on a concept meeting for the season 5 premiere while shadowing producing director Jesse Warn and plans on shadowing director Tawnia McKiernan, who helmed season 4’s “O Brother, Where Art Thou,” which introduced Jon Cryer as Lex Luthor.
Interesting to see Melissa will job shadow the director of the episode that turned season 4 around.
As for directing herself, Melissa said it would be...
“the one intimidating part because I don’t know how people do that,” she says. “But luckily, I’m surrounded by a bunch of people that are really supportive and we can divvy out responsibility. I don’t know how a brain can split like that.”
David wore pants.... 
