Jenny Allen has written for Esquire, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Good Housekeeping.

For about six years, she has been doing stand-up comedy regularly.
And for most of those years, she’s also been battling ovarian cancer, enduring chemo, losing and regrowing her hair, enduring the idiosyncracies of her cartoonist-writer husband Jules Feiffer and raising two daughters.

And now she’s talking about it in “I Got Sick Then I Got Better,” the solo show that tracks Allen’s sickness and psyche through her “health opportunity.” Directed by Tony-winner James Lapine (“Into the Woods”), “I Got Sick Then I Got Better” comes to Pleasantville’s Rosenthal JCC Theatre at 8 p.m. Saturday, part of the venue’s exceptional “Insights & Revelations” series.

Sharing such a personal journey seemed like a natural progression for Allen, who has a warm and wonderful laugh: After she got sick and got better, she got writing.

“It’s the material I had and it’s what I like to do,” she says. “If I couldn’t make hay out of this, then I shouldn’t call myself a writer.

“I sort of had to call my own bluff: ‘You call yourself a writer? You call yourself a performer? Here’s the perfect opportunity for a show you can write and perform. Are you going to talk about this or are you going to do it?”

“I Got Sick” has some heartfelt scenes, but also plenty of laughs from a woman who has faced her demons and lived to tell the tale. Her cancer is now in remission.

“I also thought, in the grimmest way, that if wasn’t going to get better, at least I could go down having done something,” she says with a laugh.

“I Got Sick Then I Got Better,” directed by James Lapine and starring Jenny Allen, Nov. 15 at 8 p.m. at the Rosenthal JCC Theatre, 600 Bear Ridge Road, Pleasantville. $25 (reservations suggested). 212-868-4444 or www.smarttix.com.