Jess Brittain (born 1989/90) is a British television writer. She is best known as a writer for the Channel 4 TV series Skins, and for creating, producing and writing the television thriller series Clique, streamed on BBC Three.
Brittain is the daughter of Scottish TV writer and Skins co-creator Bryan Elsley.
After her teenage years in Bristol, Brittain studied English literature at the University of Edinburgh. Her first professional experience was writing scripts for the Channel 4 television series Skins, for which she had initially given some informal contributions as a teenager. She also wrote the spin off novel Skins: Summer Holiday.
Subsequently, she created and wrote for the BBC Three thriller Clique.