Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas. My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes to direct. It's a skill set where you have to be able to talk to actors and understand them, and I don't. It's a very different way of being in the world, and I much prefer writing and producing.

She was the second of four children by her father's first marriage and another by his second. As part of the senior production team Melissa Rosenberg was also co-nominated for the Outstanding Drama Series award at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards. Her mother was Patricia Rosenberg a lawyer.

Spiro and they live in Los Angeles. C. She majored in Dance and Theatre at Bennington College in Vermont but Melissa Rosenberg later graduated from the University of Southern California with a Master's Degree in Film and Television Producing.