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Tony Award-winning director Jose Quintero--widely recognized as the world’s foremost interpreter of the works of Eugene O’Neill--will teach theater students in Tallahassee, Fla. this year as the fourth occupant of Florida State University’s $1-million Burt Reynolds Eminent Scholar Chair. Quintero directed his first O’Neill play, “The Iceman Cometh,” with Jason Robards in 1956. Since then, he has directed more than 17 productions of O’Neill’s plays. In 1988, Quintero returned to the New York stage to direct Robards and Colleen Dewhurst in the triumphant revival of O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” (the original production of which he had directed in 1956). Recipient of the Eugene O’Neill Gold Medal Award for outstanding achievement in the theater, Quintero has also earned Tony, Drama Desk, Obie and Outer Circle awards.