Jess Brittain (born 1989/90)[1] is a British television writer.
After her teenage years in Bristol, Brittain studied English literature at the University of Edinburgh.
[2] Her first professional experience was writing scripts for the Channel 4 television series Skins,[3] for which she had initially given some informal contributions as a teenager.
[6][7] Subsequently, she created and wrote for the BBC Three thriller Clique.
[8] Brittain is the daughter of Scottish TV writer and Skins co-creator Bryan Elsley.