Giorgio van Straten (born 1955) is an Italian writer and manager of arts organizations.
In 2000 he won four literary prizes for Il mio nome a memoria, published in English as My Name, A Living Memory (2003), the story of his Jewish-Dutch family from 1811 to our days.
That same year he was awarded the Grand Official Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
For musical theatre he wrote Tre voci for voice, string orchestra, percussion and tape, music by Giorgio Battistelli, commissioned by the Sagra Musicale Umbra (First performance: Assisi, 1996); Auf den Marmorklippen (On the Marble Cliffs), from the novel by Ernst Jünger, music by Giorgio Battistelli (First performance: National Theatre, Mannheim, 2002); Open Air, music of Andrea Molino, commissioned by the Società Aquilana dei Concerti (First performance: L'Aquila, 2012); Here there is no why, multimedia music theatre project by Andrea Molino (first performance at the Teatro Comunale, Bologna, 2014).
From 1997 to 2002 he was on the board of directors of the Biennale di Venezia and from 1998 to 2002 he also served as president of AGIS, the Italian Association for the Performing Arts.